“They join hands the Depardieus, the Polanskis, the Boutonnats,” she writes in her Télérama letter, referencing three of the most prominent French film figures accused of abuse. In a letter published on media news site Télérama on Tuesday, Haenel she wanted to use the public declaration of her retirement from the film business as a way to call out the “general complacency” within the French industry “vis-à-vis sexual aggressors.”ĭespite several high-profile examples of sexual abuse and misconduct within the French film industry, many of which came to light in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Haenel says the powers that be have chosen to ignore and ostracize women who have come forward to sound the alarm. (Jan.French actress Adèle Haenel, the star of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has announced her retirement from the movie business, saying the complacency and indifference of the French industry to the #MeToo movement is behind her decision. Agent: Anjali Singh, Ayesha Pande Literary. This charming tale of a strong and inspirational woman offers a tantalizing glimpse into the past, savoring the good without sugarcoating the bad. Looking back as an adult, Davis realizes that her mother took risks in running her business, but recalls fondly a childhood during which she always felt secure. Alongside her mother’s story, Davis chronicles the hardships African-Americans suffered-predatory real estate schemes, discriminatory treatment in stores, and police abuse. There, she learned the numbers ropes and set out to run her own operation in a short time she was able to provide generously for her family with an upscale house, a stocked refrigerator, shopping sprees at tony department stores, and even a trip to Miami Beach’s Fontainebleau resort. Fanny Davis was a feisty and sharply intelligent woman who moved her family from Nashville, Tenn., to Detroit in the early 1960s. As Davis notes, it was a “lucrative shadow economy” in African-American communities. Before there was the Michigan Lottery, there was the numbers-an illegal lottery based on three-digit numbers. Novelist Davis ( Into the Go-Slow) honors her mother in this lively and heartfelt memoir of growing up in 1960s and ’70s Detroit.
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