Film based on the real life of Jacqueline Sauvage, wife, mother, worker in the family business and in her home, simply a true sentimental and material support for her entire family. Jacqueline's mistake was to marry, when she was not yet 18 years old, to another young man, who later underwent a metamorphosis to become more a beast than a human being. That husband was very searching in life, with Jacqueline, they created a family of 3 daughters and a son and a family business, but he was a drinker, he suffered from jealousy for any nonsense and drunk he became aggressive. Over time, he began to see the children as alien to his life, but desirable, I speak of his daughters, for his wishes. In the end, Jacqueline took justice on her own. The value of the film does not lie in highlighting the mistreatment that Jacqueline and her children suffered by her husband/father, but in the vicissitudes she faced in trials, where justice was not much different from that existing at the time of Louis XVI. The trial occurred in the middle of the new millennium, on September 10, 2012 in a town in France, not in Paris or Lyon, where this can happen and go unnoticed, a small town where everyone knows each other and everyone knew about the violence of Norbert Marot, Jacqueline's husband, not only with the family, but also with the neighborhood. The film highlights a problem that also seriously affects rich countries, such as gender violence and abuse of women in general, something that has not yet been overcome. Justice everywhere should put more efforts to reduce substantially this problem.
Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
(2018 TV Movie)
The real life of Jacqueline Sauvage, wife, mother, and worker
4 June 2021