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"L'Affaire Marie-Claire": a Biopic on the Right to Abortion

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The film 'L'Affaire Marie-Claire', presented in preview at the last Cannes Film Festival, was released on November 4 at the cinema. Directors Yvo Muller and Lauriane Escaffre recount the history of Bobigny's trial in 1972, a key moment in the struggle for the right to abortion in France.
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VIDEO — The feature film by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller traces the Bobigny trial in 1972. How did it happen? In what context? Did Gisèle Halimi expose Marie-Claire in the press against her will? Télérama answers.

·Paris, France
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With "L-Affaire Marie-Claire", Charlotte Gainsbourg and filmmakers Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller revive the 1972 Bobigny trial. A filming full of emotion, as close as possible to the story of Gisèle Halimi and his fight.

Currently in theaters, the case of Marie-Claire replays the « Bobigny trial», a prelude to the legalization of abortion in France, with Charlotte Gainsbourg in the role of feminist lawyer and activist Gisèle Halimi. By recounting the trial of Bobigny, a major turning point in the fight for the right to abortion in 1972, the directors Yvo Muller and Lauriane ...

The film 'L'Affaire Marie-Claire', presented in preview at the last Cannes Film Festival, was released on November 4 at the cinema. Directors Yvo Muller and Lauriane Escaffre recount the history of Bobigny's trial in 1972, a key moment in the struggle for the right to abortion in France.

·Geneva, Switzerland
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Gaumont's new title, retracing Bobigny's trial, moved to the top of a ranking that was difficult to take off. More than 20,000 entries for L-Affaire Marie-Claire. The biopic on lawyer Gisèle Halimi (incarnate by Charlotte Gainsbourg) during the trial in Bobigny in 1972, directed by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller, recorded an average of [...]

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Boxoffice broke the news on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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