The investigation aimed at the director of “The life of Adele” had been opened in October 2018, after the complaint of a young woman.
The investigation for sexual assault for the director Abdellatif Kechiche has been closed with no action, a-t-on learned from the parquet de Paris.
This survey is open in October 2018, after the complaint of a young woman, has been classified for “offence insufficiently characterized”, according to this source. “For once, reason has won over the pathos,” responded Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for the film director, Palme d’or in 2013 for The life of Adèle.
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at the time 29 years old, the complainant had stated, according to BFMTV, having dined in June 2018 with the director in an apartment in Paris’s Twentieth arrondissement.
Asleep, after having drunk several glasses of alcohol, she had said, “waking up on the couch,” that “his pants were open” and that “Mr. Kechiche was touching it,” according to the news channel.
Controversy surrounding the filming of The life of Adele
Abdellatif Kechiche was first an actor before becoming a director and film-maker. At the cinema, it is illustrated with works subtle and humanists such as The Dodge or The Seed and the Mullet, both awarded the César for the best film, and The life of Adèle, at the centre of controversy a few months after his crowning in Cannes.
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Known for its high requirement on the sets, the director had been the target of one of the two main actresses of the film, Léa Seydoux, who had denounced the conditions of filming “horrible”, days without end, hundreds of takes for the same scene, etc
saying it was “humbled” by this quarrel public, Abdellatif Kechiche had finished by saying that he would have preferred that the film does so not because he was “too messed up”.
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In 2019, his film Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo, which included sex scenes very raw, had also sparked controversy at the Cannes film festival.
