This was a week of reckoning for powerful men in France’s film industry.

A group of Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian admirers say they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art.

A 71-year-old French man has admitted in court that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious.

The French woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband and raped by dozens of men while unconscious is becoming a symbol of the nation's fight against sexual violence.