Séance spéciale Le 7e genre/Retour à l'écran L'AMOUR VIOLE (1978) de Yannick Bellon

Special session 'The 7th Genre'/'Return to the Screen' as part of an international symposium (November 27-28, 2025) on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the journal 'Genre en séries: cinéma, télévision, médias'
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LOVE VIOLATED (1978)
by Yannick Bellon

Nicole, a nurse in Grenoble, is raped one evening by four men. Traumatized, she thinks she will never recover from the shock. On the advice of a friend, she finally files a complaint so that the case can have legal repercussions.

"Violated Love tells the story of a news item. A criminal news item, since rape constitutes a crime in the eyes of the law. And it is a crime that Yannick Bellon shows us. She describes it meticulously. She proceeds neither through ellipsis nor understatement. Here is the assault, the abduction, the insults, the slaps, the blows, the tears, the screams, the brutality of the act, the sexual acts. And here are the physical consequences: the injured, defiled, soiled body; and, even more serious, the moral consequences. (...) But for too many people, such a crime ceases to be criminal because of its very banality. The figures, the statistics repeat it: rape is part of a general, ordinary violence. Yannick Bellon therefore situates it in a very ordinary setting. It takes place in Grenoble and its suburbs, just as it could happen anywhere in France. The location plays no role whatsoever—except to allow for rather fresh and restful images." weekend in the snow. The rape victim, her fiancé, her friends are ordinary people. So are the rapists. Neither thugs nor disturbing outcasts." (Jean Louis Bory - Le Nouvel Observateur).

Our guests: Aurore Renaut, lecturer in film and audiovisual studies, teacher at the European Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, and Cécile Farkas, programming director at Doriane Films and CapuSeen.

Translated automatically - see original description in French