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\n\tActress and director Judith Godr\u00e8che made an enchantment on the French C\u00e9sar Awards on Friday for a brand new period of fact across the concern of sexual abuse in France<\/a>\u2019s cinema world after a long time of silence and denial.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFor some time now, voices have been unleashed, the idealized image of our fathers has been shattered, power almost seems to be in a state of turmoil, could it be possible for us to look at the truth in the eye?,\u201d she mentioned in specifically programmed slot. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cTo take on our responsibilities? To be actors, actresses of a world that is questioning itself?, \u201c she asked. \u201cFor some time now, I\u2019ve been talking and talking, but I can\u2019t hear you, or only a little. Where are you? What are you saying? A whisper. Half a word.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHer look on the C\u00e9sar ceremony comes three weeks after the actress filed an official police criticism in opposition to director Beno\u00eet Jacquot for \u201crapes with violence of a minor less than 15-years-old\u201d and Jacques Doillon for sexual assault. Both administrators<\/p>\n \n\tHer accusations date again to the late Eighties and early Nineties when Godr\u00e8che was in a relationship with Jacquot within the late Eighties, which she says started when she was solely 14 years previous and he was 40.<\/p>\n \n\tGodr\u00e8che has mentioned she \u201cunder his influence\u201d and that the connection was mistaken.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to stand here in front of all of you tonight. There are so many of you. Yet, in the end, I suppose it had to happen. Face to face with each other, looking into each other\u2019s eyes,\u201d she mentioned.<\/p>\n \n\tGodr\u00e8che, who’s now 51, lived with Jacquot for six years and appeared in his movies\u00a0The Beggars<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Disenchanted<\/em> (for which she was nominated on the C\u00e9sars as Best Promising Actress in 1991) earlier than leaving him in her early 20s.<\/p>\n \n\tShe went on to construct a profitable profession as an actress at house and lately returned to France after a stint dwelling in L.A., and has since made her TV directorial debut with the\u00a0A24-backed drama collection<\/a>\u00a0Icons Of French Cinema<\/em>\u00a0laying naked \u00a0what occurred to her as teenager.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMany of you have seen me grow up. It\u2019s impressive, it has an impact. When it comes down to it, I\u2019ve never known anything other than cinema,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSo, to reassure myself, I invented a little lullaby along the way. \u201cMy clasped arms, they\u2019re you, all the little girls in the silence. My neck, my bent neck, it\u2019s you, all the children in silence. My wobbly legs, they\u2019re you, the young men who couldn\u2019t defend themselves. My trembling but also smiling mouth is you, my unknown sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAfter all, I too am a crowd. A crowd facing you. A crowd that is looking you in the eye tonight. It\u2019s a funny moment for all of us, isn\u2019t it? A returnee from the Americas has come to kick in the armored door. Who would have thought?\u201d<\/p>\n