A tough subject, but unfortunately still relevant today. Shock documentary, A silence so loud is broadcast this Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 11 p.m. on M6. With strong testimonies from victims of incest, including Emmanuelle Béart, both co-director and witness to the program, in which she reveals having been a victim of incest during her childhood. Even before the film was presented to the press, the actress made it known that her attacker, whom she spoke about on camera, was not her father.
Emmanuelle Béart reveals having been a victim of incest in A silence so loud
In addition to Emmanuelle Béart, who never revealed the identity of her attacker, the program also follows four other victims who speak out, after years of silence, sometimes even forgetting. Words that are obviously hard to hear, but treated without any voyeurism, sometimes with very modest drawings to evoke the darkest moments. It took three years of preparation to arrive at these testimonies, filmed as closely as possible. Above all, this choral documentary is an ode to resilience, to the incredible strength of men and women (and a child) who try, each in their own way, to rebuild themselves. To better try to understand what the victims are experiencing, Emmanuelle Béart and her co-director Anastasia Mikova, a Franco-Ukrainian journalist who has notably worked with the photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a specialist in nature documentaries, also interviewed a judge and a psychologist, who both provide different and complementary insights.
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A psychologist’s analysis of the feelings of incest victims
Very strong but also very complete, the documentary also addresses a delicate subject: the possible “pleasure” felt by certain people who are victims of incest. A point clarified by Cyril Tarquinio, psychologist specializing in trauma, interviewed by the two directors. “The victims feel guilty, guilty of having seduced. We make them believe this“, he explains. “Guilty of having felt, we don’t talk about that. People say ‘he touched me, I’m ashamed, I felt pleasure’. But it’s not fun. The genitals are the most innervated parts of the body. When someone touches you, you feel something, that doesn’t mean it’s pleasure. All this educational work is important to explain that the victims did not participate in this process“. A welcome analysis.
