“Consolation” : Flavie Flament very emotional during the presentation to The Rochelle Gala

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Very expected in La Rochelle, where is held the Festival of the fiction TV, Flavie Flament elicited the emotion with Friday the adaptation of his book The Consolation. It “almost crying” at the time of discover on the big screen this movie that she co-wrote.

“Something unspeakable and not beautiful, you have made a beautiful film”. Flavie Flament is addressed to the filmmaker Magaly Richard-Serrano. His telefilm, The Consolation, will remain one of the highlights of the 19th edition of the Festival of the fiction TV of La Rochelle. Very emotional, the facilitator presented it for the first time in public, she who tells a story that she has long repressed: his rape at the age of 13 years by the photographer David Hamilton. “I have the heart that beat wildly, a strong emotion that I hugged, but I’m also extremely happy that this movie exists, this is a story that is mine is also that of many other children silenced.”

The Consolation shows Flavie Flament at several stages of his life. At 13 years old, fondly called Poupette, and brilliantly embodied by Lou Gable, she is a victim of psychological torture of his mother perverse, narcissistic (Léa Drucker) and sexual abuse of photographer David Hamilton (Phillip Schürer). At the age of adulthood, under the guise of Emilie Dequenne, she started a therapy and remembered… Too late for his “predator” as she calls him brought to justice.

“It is a committed film because my fight continues for all those victims of traumatic amnesia, which are today muselées by prescription.” says the former star of TF1, today on RTL. If it has given its agreement for the adaptation of his book confession, which had made so much noise at the time of its release, it is for it to have a scope. And more importantly, that it arouses a debate after its release in November on France 3.

Flavie Flament, now seems serene, relieved, happy. “I don’t live in resentment. But I took pen to paper to denounce it. What I couldn’t do it in front of the courts.” She has also participated in the development of a departmental report on the lengthening of the period of limitation, and has co-created with Karine Dufour (You won’t my hain’(e) a documentary on the subject which will be broadcast on France 5. More determined than ever.

Photo credits : DAVID NIVIERE/SIPA

Flavie Flament

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