For many, he represents the nation\u2019s cultural presence. But he is also a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre for those frightened by #MeToo and progressive change<\/p>\n
I remember the moment my Scottish flatmate showed me a clip of G\u00e9rard Depardieu in Le Camion by Marguerite Duras<\/a> from 1977, proof of his youthful attractiveness. As a woman born in France in the 1980s, my recent memory pictured him as a more imposing figure, someone prone to d\u00e9bordements<\/em> in the sense of excess \u2013 a national treasure: a symbol of a certain Rabelaisian laisser-aller<\/em>, an overindulgence of man\u2019s appetites.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t lie and say that the latest Depardieu controversy \u2013 the accusations of past rape<\/a> and sexual assault \u2013 came as a shock in my parents\u2019 home north of Paris, where I am spending the quiet days between Christmas and new year.<\/p>\n Elsa Court is a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many, he represents the nation\u2019s cultural presence. But he is also a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre for those frightened by #MeToo and progressive change I remember the moment my Scottish flatmate showed me a clip of G\u00e9rard Depardieu in Le Camion by Marguerite Duras from 1977, proof of his youthful attractiveness. As a woman born in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}