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THE MARIE-CLAIRE CASE
Show · Tuesday, November 24 · 18:30 · Carbon-Blanc
Parc Favols, rue Vignau-Anglade, 33560 Carbon-Blanc
Historical and judicial drama | 1h42. By Lauriane Escaffre, Yvo Muller starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cécile de France, Grégory Gadebois. November 1972. At the Bobigny courthouse, an exceptional trial shook France. Marie-Claire Chevalier, 16, is accused of illegally aborting. On the stand, her mother and all the women who helped her. Their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, makes a crazy, absurd wager: she asks them not to plead guilty. Gisèle will do what has never been done before, she will accuse and challenge the law, risking everything.
