Yannick Bellon

She went on to make several more feature films, including L'amour violé (Rape of Love)[1] with its feminist insights in 1978 and Les Enfants du désordre in 1989, evoking the difficulties a drug addict experiences when trying to return to normal life.

[4] After studying for just one year at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, she became the assistant of the film editor Myriam Borsoutsky, working on a series of documentaries and on Albert Dubout's cartoons.

[2] The first film she produced on her own was the documentary Goémons (1947), telling how the inhabitants of the island of Béniguet make use of the local seaweed.

She had no doubt hoped these would reflect the intentions she expressed in 1961 when she said: "If through my works, you conclude that injustice revolts me and dignity seems to me to be the most important virtue, so much the better."

Her films do indeed appear to demonstrate this approach, highlighting women's liberation in La Femme de Jean (1974), rape in L'Amour violé (1978), cancer in L'Amour nu (1981) and homosexuality in La Triche (1984).