Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff. A very smart and manipulative man, the fifty-year-old renowned writer seduces the young girl. The adolescent becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the cultural and political establishment. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually starts to realize how destructive and abnormal the situation is.
Le Consentement is the film adaptation of the memoir of the same name by Vanessa Springora, in which she describes how she was groomed during her teenage years by the celebrated French writer Gabriel Matzneff. The book caused a shockwave in the French literary world, where Matzneff’s activities were nonetheless widely known. He even wrote about sexual encounters with young children in the Philippines. Yet it was not until 2020 that Matzneff finally fell from grace.
With support of Institut français NL and the IF-cinéma programme.
- Director
- Vanessa Filho
- Running Time
- 118′
- Release Year
- 2023
- Country
- France, Belgium
- Language
- French
- Subtitles
- English
- Supported by
- Institut français NL
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