Thanks to everyone joined us at Soho House Screen Room for the beautiful and uplifting film about incest. And to the Director Anastasia Mikova for your message to us. It is common. It is complicated. The effects last a lifetime. And you can heal.
Presented by TALK Hong Kong, Such a Resounding Silence (Un Silence Si Bruyant) is a ground breaking documentary on intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse.
French film star @emmanuellebeart (Manon of the Springs; Mission: Impossible) publicly revealed she is an incest survivor.
A national reckoning around child sexual abuse was already underway in France after accusations were made against a prominent family when Béart set about lifting the veil of silence around the crime. Choosing both first-person and ensemble documentary voices, Béart creates a powerful platform for fellow fighters to challenge the insidious shame that arises from incest. Along with co-director @Anastasia.Mikova, two other women and a man, Béart points the finger at the laws and social taboos of a country where a child is sexually victimized every three minutes.
Reluctant to include her own story at first, Béart powerfully remonstrates: “the silence—which is first imposed by the person who rapes you—this silence makes a terrible noise within you and takes all kinds of forms” in this stirring and personal critique.
With thanks to the producer @hautetcourtdoc