CANNES The most evil ones were waiting for her at the gate. Remembering some previous embarrassed. In 1999, called to announce the Palme d’Or to the Dardenne brothers, her confused speech was interrupted by an impatient Kristin Scott Thomas. And then, a few years later, a small accident on the Monte de Marches with a shoulder pad. But always on the Croisette, Sophie Marceau took her first film as a director in 1995, the short Dawn upside down. It took an eclectic and confident director like Franois Ozon to finally offer her the opportunity to be, for the first time in her forty-year career, in competition at Cannes. Protagonist with Andr Dussolier of Everything went well, (coming soon with Academy Two) from Emmanule Bernheim’s autobiographical novel about her dramatic experience as a daughter who indulges her sick father’s desire to stop suffering.
It all went great on the Croisette for Sophie Marceau. Radiant, cheerful, she enjoyed this return to the full. And the veneration of Ozon (a year younger than her) that she has never hidden to consider The time of apples (Le Boum) his cult film of adolescence. To the point of mentioning the famous disco scene in the previous film, Estate 1985, with one of the protagonists playing his Walkman to the friend like Alexander Sterling did to Sophie. The director had been wooing her for some time and this was the perfect opportunity. Not a manifesto film on euthanasia, they explain, but a hymn to life, through the story of the relationship between a father and a daughter. Sophie the actress of my generation. I “grew up” with her, she has always interested me. And I’m happy to be shooting with her now, in her early fifties. He knows how to express his sensitivity. A very vital character, Sophie Marceau gets excited, that of Emmanule. Love life. capable of giving a lot, he does not hold back. It seems a paradox, because her father is asking the unacceptable to help him go away. These are not easy things to talk about, but you have to deal with them. These are the contradictions of the human parable. Joy and suffering are two sides of the same coin. And in our business we show them both. When we suffer from acting, we laugh, we cry. The essential thing is not to be afraid to express our emotions, also a way to exorcise them. There is beauty in pain.
His concern was to be faithful to the real protagonist, Emmanule Bernheim, writer and screenwriter, companion of the former director of the Cinmathque franaise Serge Toubiana, who passed away in 2017. He was not a public figure and this was not a biopic. I don’t even know if I could play a real character. My fear was for her loved ones, for those who loved her, I didn’t want to disappoint them. At the same time it is a story close to the life of many. Somewhere in some family there will be a very similar experience and every day in the face of the sufferings of life we face the same dilemmas. And something that brings me closer to the viewer. He now has a not very hectic relationship with cinema. The last film he starred and directed, Mrs Mills – A neighbor’s treasure, dates back to 2018. There was a moment – he said before returning to the festival – when I felt I needed to take time, rediscover the pleasure of films. I had done too many I needed a break. Get your feet back on the ground. Taking care of my things, the house, the people, living in reality. In short, take your time. Without giving up enjoying the one in front of the Ozon camera.
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