The director also expressed her disappointment at the French newspaper’s editorial board, which, while the actor has not yet been judged, “shamefully flaunted this story, publishing on the front page a photo of a young man with blood on his hands,” and then added adds: “Dozens and dozens of people have dedicated themselves to the film with passion and dedication, this approach is deeply disrespectful to all their wonderful work.” Bruni Tedeschi then revealed the nature of her relationship with Bennacer: “I don’t have to comment on my private life, but since I will be held accountable, I would like to say that we actually have a love relationship, but this relationship started long after the filming finished and is mainly based on a deep friendship” .
The director also underscored that she wants to take full responsibility for keeping the actor in the cast (even though his name doesn’t appear on the film poster): “I was artistic impressed by Sofiane Bennacer from the first second of casting my film and I really wanted him to be the lead actor, despite the rumors that were circulating that I knew about.” He then explains that the producers “expressed fears and reservations, but I did communicates that these voices should not question this choice and that it was unthinkable for me to make the film without him.” And then he clarifies: “I take full responsibility for my choice.” Bruni Tedeschi adds that he learned that a complaint had been filed. Filming had then begun, and a change of actors would create insurmountable legal hurdles. Then he emphasizes that he met each other Sofiane Bennacer for several months on the job, especially during the long rehearsal period, “and I was absolutely sure of his human qualities.”
To accuse the actor of at least two ex-boyfriends, as Liberation reports, there is also another case. Le Parisien reports that “Patrick Sobelman, one of the two producers of the film ‘Les Amandiers’, ensured that the production was unaware of Sofiane Bennacer’s alleged actions before recruiting him”.
Carla Bruni defends her sister
Also Carla Bruni, actress, singer and former French First Lady and sister of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi commented on social media about the alleged rape allegations by the French newspaper Liberation against actress Sofiane Bennacer and in favor of her sister: “One of the foundations of our democracy is the presumption of innocence. Without the presumption of innocence All justice is uncertain, questionable and perhaps corrupt. Libé has been giving us moral lessons for 40 years, but the presumption of innocence is apparently completely foreign to him. To be on the front page of a newspaper today is to be fully condemned. It means crucifying someone without knowing what it really is. It means violating one of the foundations of our democracies.
And he added: “I stand in solidarity with all women as a matter of principle, I am committed and relentless in defending all victims and their struggle because there has been so much abuse, so much impunity for so long and those responsible have been punished so rarely.” But the feminist I’ve always been, she now says that you don’t ease the pain of victims by creating new victims in wild and random and equally unfair ways. Shame on you Liberation: if you crucify someone on your front page without knowing if they are really guilty, you are making fun of democracy. It is all journalism that is being questioned, the entire value of information, the entire value of justice and truth. I regret buying you because I thought you respected humanity, I naively believed you were the newspaper that defends the oppressed, the unknown, the victim of life, the one who alone against the herd is, but you’re the opposite: you’re just a pov I was an establishment organ you thought you were fighting. You deny your own values, you deny everything you believed in and I believed in with you. My total and absolute support for my sister.”
The film
“Forever Young” is the light-flooded story in light and shadow of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s formative experience in the theater in the mid-80s Patrice Chereau and Pierre Romans Les Amandiers where talent, discipline, creativity, community, sex and drugs were one with the nightmare of AIDS in its infancy. In addition to the protagonist, a magnificent Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Bennacer (who plays tormented and violent aspiring actor Etienne) e Louis Garrell as Chereau. “The actors improvised a lot on set and for me their mistakes in this case brought back the experience from back then. I let Louis do it, he had met him when he was 21, dreamed of working on it, he loved it, he made it his own Chereau”. That “Best of Youth”, that vitality of youth, that “Truth” that Bruni Tedeschi’s film is able to convey is a real gift for the viewer and also a source of inspiration for the young people who will see it.For her part, the director says she feels fully responsible for making films. “I love my job as an actress, but it’s a bit of a holiday now, a lighthearted thing, I’m doing the series in Sicily Valeria Golino, I’m playing a hurting, old, angry character, but I’m happy like I haven’t been on set in decades. The actors are kids, directing is more difficult, it’s for adults. For me it is an excuse to be with the people I love, I call my daughter, my mother, Louis himself, we are separated, but when he makes a film with me he is forced to see me !”.