Set in 18th-century Brittany, the film stars Adèle Haenel – who worked with Sciamma on Water Lilies, and with whom the director was in a relationship for a number of years – as Héloïse.

French actress Adele Haenel has won her landmark case against director Christophe Ruggia after he molested her as a child.

The sentence comes six years after Haenel went public in 2019 with sexual assault accusations against Ruggia in an interview with investigative website Mediapart.

The sentence comes six years after Haenel went public in 2019 with sexual assault accusations against Ruggia in an interview with investigative website Mediapart.

When Ms. Haenel first revealed such accusations publicly in 2019, she was the first major French actress to speak out about her personal story of abuse since the #MeToo movement emerged.

Adèle Haenel, a French actor who has accused a filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, shouted at him to "shut up" before storming out in the middle of his trial. Christophe ...

It comes five years after Haenel spoke out against Ruggia, accusing him of grooming and sexual abuse when she was 12 and he was 36 after she was cast in his 2002 film The Devils.

On the last day of her trial against the filmmaker she accused of sexually assaulting her as a child, French actor Adèle Haenel on Tuesday briefly stormed out of the courtroom and told Christophe ...

Adèle Haenel tells director Christophe Ruggia to 'just shut up' after he denies child abuse in court The French actress, who quit filmmaking after saying the industry turned a blind eye to sexual ...

The director accused of sexually assaulting French actor Adele Haenel when she was a minor went on trial in Paris on Monday. Haenel’s accusations sparked a #MeToo movement in French cinema, with ...