Le réalisateur Mathieu Busson et de l’actrice Julie Gayet devant un auditoire captivé. Joëlle Compère
On Tuesday, December 3, students from Marcel-Aymard Middle School and Jean-Vigo High School attended the screening of the film “Olympe, a Woman in the Revolution” in the presence of co-directors Mathieu Busson and Julie Gayet.
A meeting they will remember. At the Millau cinema, classes from Marcel-Aymard Middle School and specialized cinema classes from Jean-Vigo High School attended the screening of the film “Olympe, a Woman in the Revolution”. Directed by Mathieu Busson and Julie Gayet, the title role is played by the French actress. Mathieu Busson had warned them, “Julie talks a lot before the film, in the film and after the film, prepare your questions”.
Olympe, a French pioneer of feminism
Following the film, a long discussion between the teenagers and the co-directors took place. The opportunity to address questions of history but also of its narrative including that of the role of women passed over in silence, notably that of Olympe de Gouges.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, of two anti-slavery, anti-racist and anti-colonialist plays, of another on the need for divorce and of other writings, all committed. Olympe demanded – among other struggles – the creation of maternity wards, national homes for the unemployed and beggars, civil and not necessarily religious contracts for marriages, or even the recognition of children born out of wedlock.
Questioning students on gender equality
“Olympe, a woman in the revolution” is the first film dedicated to her in its entirety. Julie Gayet, like her character, a convinced spokesperson, challenged the adolescents on the living conditions of women today.
What do they think of the salary gaps that still exist between men and women, of the conditioning of education to be a girl or a boy, and urged them to participate in the construction of a society “of liberty, equality, fraternity and sorority”. A reminder of the emergence of the #MeeToo movement which allowed, in the film industry, to denounce practices from another age and to better protect actresses and women working in the film industry.
There were many questions about the profession
With the Aveyron Culture Department, Jean-Vigo's film students had the opportunity to attend the filming of three sequences of the film last year, in Villefranche de Rouergue, and to watch this film in the presence of the directors. Enough to introduce them to the long process of making a film and discovering the professions.
Questions about cinema were addressed. Screenwriting, the embodiment of a character for the actress, the representation of an era in terms of sets, costumes, lights, the distribution of roles in co-direction.
Advice was given to future filmmakers or actors. Enough to encourage them to write, read, imagine, keep notebooks, act, shoot, experiment, go to the cinema, understand their intentions and achievements, while being aware of the difficult path of these professions. And always with the same enthusiasm, Julie Gayet ended by sharing the fact that being dyslexic and left-handed had not prevented her from succeeding in her job, even that of producer. Believing in yourself and giving yourself the means to do so with mutual respect for girls and boys is the best she wished for them.