Actor Gerard Depardieu went on trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, in a case that placed one of France's best-known movie stars at the heart of the country's broader reckoning over sexual violence.

French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France. Depardieu,

French actor Gerard Depardieu has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting two women on a film set, placing the global star at the centre of a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France.