H24: 24 punches to denounce the violence against women
Four years after the #MeToo revolution and its replicas, many French fictions take up the subject of violence against women: already "fugueuse" on TF1 and soon "stolen service", also on the first channel, "boomerang" on France2, "doubts" on Arte, "she saved me" and "has madness" on M6 ... born of a "fed up against acts of repeated violence against women", "H24»Fits in this trend even if its artistic shape differs completely.
Her creators, Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urrea who come from the documentary, asked 24 renowned European writers, such as Agnès Desarthe, Siri Hustvedt, Rosa Montero, Sofi Oksanen or Alice Zeniter, to compose a short text drawn from real facts:which seem the most common, such as being called a whore on social networks or harassing in the street or transport, up to the phenomena of grip, sexual abuses on minors, and feminicides.
"We wanted to give voice to anonymous, victims or resistant, and create a space where to reappropriate our stories so that they no longer escape us," said Valérie Urrea.The result is 24 monologues, one for each hour of the day, from three to four minutes, face camera or in voiceover, called by various actresses (Diane Kruger, Souheila Yacoub, Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Camille Cottin ...)in their original language.
Resistance acts
Several of these stories relate to micro-aggressions that we can do little."It was essential to deal with this insidious violence because few victims dare to file a complaint," says Nathalie Masduraud.By giving the example of the episode entitled "Le Bunon", where a law student is destabilized by a remark from a teacher on her hairstyle.
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In some films, women retaliate.Like the one who faces her street harassment at the risk of taking a fist in the face or the young teenager, who was treated as a whore at school because she put herself on the lips on her lips, and who asks: "But where is the border between being a whore and being what we expect from a young woman?»»
With their singular and strong aesthetic, these cumulative stories show how much the daily life of women is invaded by violence, still partly integrated: "it's normal", "nothing happened", these mantras come back withoutStop in their mouths.But the toad drool ...
H24, 24 hours in a woman's life
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Created by Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urrea
On Arte and Arte.TV from October 23