Isabelle Huppert’s daughter in the film about the great Russian writer. “The focus of the story is in a penal colony in Siberia.” The actress is also Caravaggio’s muse in Michele Placido’s film: «Nude and stretched out on a wooden table. But only for one day”
Living in the shadow of a genius. This was the life of Macha Chekhov, sister of the great Russian writer, now brought to the screen by Lolita Chammah, 39, daughter of Isabelle Huppert. Anton Cechov is the film by the late René Feret, starring Nicolas Giraud, out on the 26th for Wanted.
“He sacrificed his life to devote himself to his brother and take care of the family. She played the piano, she was talented as a painter. But in the 1800s there was another vision of humanity and the relationship between men and women».
“He used to say that medicine was his wife, literature his mistress: when he got tired of one, he went with the other. You ask me what did her sister represent then? She was a bit like a mother, her point of reference was stability. I often play solitude, women who are or seem to come from distant times».
The focus of the film is the writer’s visit to Siberia.
«On the island of Sakhalin, in the penal colony, he wanted to tell the conditions of deprivation of the prisoners, who had their children next to them. At night the children slept with the prisoners and the guards, all in a heap together. Chekhov was a humanist, his gaze was on the pain of others, he knew compassion, he saw an unbearable level of suffering and when he returned he said, if I hadn’t gone I would still be convinced of my uselessness ».
She is in the film “The Shadow of Caravaggio” by Michele Placido.
«I am a prostitute and her muse, Annuccia, a beautiful character who inspired her Death of the virginthe painting preserved in the Louvre».
Placido says of her that…
«Yes I know, that I was professional and patient in being naked, lying on a wooden table, for eight hours. But it was only one day, not a week. It didn’t seem crazy to me. And luckily the nude is no longer news. Caravaggio is linked to sexuality, nudity, carnality. His is the painting of the body and of light ».
His mother, Isabelle Huppert, is also in the film.
“But we didn’t have any scenes together. It’s our fourth film together. When it happens we enjoy it, we are relaxed. Life is stronger than work. We don’t stick to the characters. I have a ten year old son and my mother, as a grandmother, is very present. I’m more instinctive, she’s more cerebral. Do you say that the real daughter is her? Well, I think it’s a love of paradoxes, which is part of French culture. I am light and reflective, analytical. I feel very Italian, I studied your language in high school».
Do you hang out with Italian actresses who live in Paris?
«Only Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. We shared the theater. I adore her sensitivity, how she brings her neuroses and anxieties to the cinema. She is not afraid of herself, of wounds and defeats. This makes her an interesting actress and director. And then there’s a sense of mystery about her. We’re quite alike.”
Valeria defended her young boyfriend, Sofiane Bennacer, accused of sexual assault.
«In France it is a case that collapsed after two days, and my country is very hard on these events. Among the legacies of Me Too, here there is less subjection to aesthetic canons, less obsession with the perfection of the body. There is more naturalness and awareness. The revolution has just begun. It is a war that we must fight men and women together. We will have to come to a reconciliation between the sexes, sooner or later. But it won’t be prompted by my next role.”
«I am the assistant of an American diplomat at the French consulate who in 1940 becomes a spy for the Nazis. The intellectual Varian Fry went to Marseilles with a list of endangered artists and writers that he wanted to save, obtaining false documents: Marc Chagall and Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Hannah Arendt. It is a Netflix series titled Transatlanticcreated by Anna Winger and is inspired by the true adventures of Emergency Rescue Committee. It was a race against time. It took tremendous courage.”
«It’s not a stage name even if it seems like one, I like it, it makes me think of a freshness that is renewed. My parents (father is producer Ronald Chammah, ndr) wanted to pay a small tribute to Nabokov and Kubrick».
January 26, 2023 (change January 26, 2023 | 20:43)
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