Asia Argento,
In this address at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, she stands on the stage of the very institution where her assault took place and names it. She does not speak in careful, legally measured language. She speaks with the authority of someone who has decided that the room no longer gets to be comfortable. She names Harvey Weinstein directly, predicts his disgrace, and then turns to the audience — because she knows he was not the only one. The people still sitting in that room, still celebrated, still protected — she addresses them too.
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