I can't wait for Friday. Because the film comes out on February 23rd The Agreementinspired by Vanessa Springora's book, is exhibited here in Quebec.
• Also read: The director of the film “Consent” pays tribute to the courage of Denise Bombardier: “It was really necessary to pay tribute to her”
Finally! All Quebecers will be aware of how courageous Denise Bombardier was in 1990 when she denounced the pedophilia of the writer Gabriel Matzneff, who told in his books that he enjoyed sodomizing 14-year-old girls.
This is all the more striking because the director does not shy away from showing us very rough sex scenes between the 50-year-old pedophile and his young victim.
These disturbing images will repulse you. And you will wonder why no one before Denise Bombardier denounced the actions of this despicable pedophile.
NOT A BAD FUCK
The director of the film Le Consentement, Vanessa Filho, told my colleague Maxime Demers in an interview how much she liked Denise Bombardier and why it was important to her to include the real images of Apostrophes in her film.
“When I saw this woman speak out with so much courage and tenacity, and when I learned that she was subsequently lynched and treated like an asshole by the literary director of Le Monde, I was shocked and shocked.” It was for I really felt the need to pay tribute to him.”
- Listen to the Durocher-Dutrizac meeting with Sophie Durocher QUB :
In fact, it was the writer Philippe Sollers who publicly called Denise Bombardier a “bad bastard” and a “shrew”. Jacques Lanzmann was surprised that she had not received a “slap in the face” and advised her to “go back to her ice floes”.
In her autobiography, Denise said: “GM’s “friends” went to the barricades. In Le Monde, Josyane Savigneau (of a woman, that amazed me) wrote a long article in defense of Matzneff entitled “The Man Who Loves Love.”
What my friend Denise denounced was the complicity of the French literary world, which she described as “lazy.”
But we must not forget the complacency of the Quebec literary scene 30 years later…
While researching this column, I came across a long interview with Gabriel Matzneff published in Le Devoir in 1994, four years after the famous confrontation with Denise in Apostrophes.
The title is overwhelming: “Matzneff, Martyr of Literature”.
Archive photo, Le Journal de Québec
In the show Apostrophes, Matzneff poses as Denise's victim. “His tone was unbearable […] She was so aggressive towards me that she made the audience hate her.” The journalist who interviews Matzneff asks him why he likes young girls, as if she were asking him why he prefers mushrooms to asparagus. Matzneff's answer? “Maybe you should ask why they are attracted to me. Why they are willing to take risks and experience passions with me.”
ANYTHING TO SEDUCE?
The journalist who conducted the interview is courteous: “Gabriel Matzneff was charming and even offered me to sign his books. […] The man with his youthful face and looks, his intense blue eyes, his graceful gestures and his beautiful words has everything to seduce.
That was Danielle Laurin's attitude in 1994, just four years after Denise reported this pedophile!
Run in large numbers to see approval. To honor the memory of my friend Denise and so that she is no longer “alone against all”.