Consent

2023 · 119 min · FR · 6.8 (242 votes)

Dir. Vanessa Filho · Starring Kim Higelin, Jean-Paul Rouve, Laetitia Casta, Élodie Bouchez, Jean Chevalier, Lolita Chammah

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In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

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This is a profoundly disturbing and somber experience, recounting a harrowing journey through exploitation and the insidious nature of power. It's an unflinching, reflective drama that steadily builds a sense of unease and quiet rage, prompting deep contemplation on societal complicity and the complexities of memory and consent.

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