Feminist organisation Choisir (http://www. choisirlacausedesfemmes.org/) links to this clip (see below) for the domestic violence awareness campaign lead by the Fédération Nationale Solidarité Femmes. It focuses on the way domestic violence affects children, and is addressed to men; the slogan at the end says "A man who maltreats his wife is teaching his children violence."
***WARNING: TRIGGERING***
Big size version:
http://www. youtube.com/v/FAaZXIPNH48
Direct link to Youtube page with smaller version:
http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=FAaZXIPNH48
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I am always skeptical about the use of advertising, but this is pretty subtle because it is set in a white petit-bourgeois family and it shows the violence of verbal abuse (the man shouts "did I hit you? Did I hit you?").
This is supposed to be airing on television in preparation for the 25th. Choisir's front page says that in France, one woman dies every three days under her male spouse's beating.
I have been told that some people have reacted negatively to the spot. My guess is that they would have preferred it to be set in a North African or Black family, so that they could distance themselves from it and blame DV on "barbaric cultures". But Bertrand Cantat, the "leftist alternative rock star" who slapped his girlfriend, actress Marie Trintignant, to death, then spent the whole trial mudding her, was a white Frenchman from Bordeaux, and this was a wealthy couple.