Country: France
Year: 2023
Duration: 100'
Through this documentary, Emmanuelle Béart aims to lift the veil on incest. Coming out of her silence, the actress, accompanied by director Anastasia Mikova, confronts her reality with that of others. Choosing both first-person and ensemble documentary voices, she creates a powerful platform for fellow fighters to challenge the insidious shame that arises from incest. Her film points the finger at the laws and social taboos of a country where a child is sexually victimized every three minutes.
Biography
film director
Emmanuelle Béart
(Gassin, France) began her acting career in the 1980s and gained celebrity status thanks to her role in Claude Berri's Manon des Sources. She subsequently worked with some of the most renowned directors such as Jacques Rivette, André Téchiné, Claude Sautet, Claude Chabrol, Brian de Palma, and François Ozon. Her French and international filmography has brought her professional and popular acclaim, yet it has not hindered her commitment to several humanitarian projects – she was a UNICEF ambassador (1996-2006) among numerous other activities that are dear to her. Un silence si bruyant, co-directed with Anastasia Mikova, is her first documentary film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un silence si bruyant (coregia Anastasia Mikova, doc, 2024)
Anastasia Mikova
(Ukraine) is a journalist and director. She began her career in print media before moving to television, where she worked as an investigative journalist and produced numerous documentaries. In 2009, she was appointed editor-in-chief of the TV program Vu du Ciel, presented by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. She collaborated with him on the documentary project Human and in 2019 directed the film Femme(s).
FILMOGRAFIA
Femme(s) (coregia Yann Arthus-Bertrand, doc, 2019), Un silence si bruyant (coregia Emmanuelle Béart, doc, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“After Camille Kouchner’s book La familia grande, we’re starting to hear the voices of more and more victims, to make us understand that no, these aren’t isolated incidents. The scale of the #MetooIncest movement on social networks is proof of this. Emmanuelle Béart is one of these victims. She’s the woman running at the beginning of the film. She has experienced incest in her own flesh. She knows what she’s talking about, even if she’s never spoken about it before. This is the starting point of the film. Driven by her own story, her resilience but also the need to understand what happened to her, she wanted to a necessary film, to tell a symbolic and universal story with which other victims could perhaps identify. A story that would help those who haven’t lived through it to understand what happens when you’re subjected to incest.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTORS, SCREENPLAY: Emmanuelle Béart, Anastasia Mikova (with the participation of Anne-Marie Sangla). CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nicos Argillet, Stéphane Correa, Alexis Kavyrchine. EDITING: Anne-Marie Sangla. MUSIC: David François Moreau. SOUND: Victor Pierre. CAST: Joachim, Angélique, Pascale, Caroline, Norma and mother Corrine, Sarah and daughter fille, Elodie, Cindy, Jérôme, Nina, Catherine, Aline, Edouard Durand, Myriam Guedj-Benayoun, Cyril Tarquinio. PRODUCTION: Emmanuelle Lepers.
CONTACT: Haut et Court production@hautetcourt.com
