“Consent,” an adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestselling book which sparked a belated #MeToo moment in France, has lured major distributors while thriving at the local box office and stirring ...

A French memoir of sexual abuse created a political storm – but is it, as its author suggests, “first and foremost a piece of literature”? By Lola Seaton Most memoirists are burdened with the question ...

A literary, legal and cultural storm in France is possibly becoming a watershed moment in the broader #MeToo movement. Vanessa Springora, 47, has written an explosive tell-all book that alleged, in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Growing up in France in the mid-1980s, I remember those teenage girls who enjoyed the freedom I did not. They ...

Vanessa Springora’s “shocking” and “rapier-sharp” memoir (which first appeared a year ago in France) details her abuse, long ago, by a man “lionised for decades by the French establishment”, said ...

SND, the film arm of France’s M6 broadcasting group, has boarded Vanessa Filho’s Consent (Le Consentement), the big-screen adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestselling book Consent: A Memoir that ...

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