The great actress in the film “Les jeunes amants”, story at first sight between a 70-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man (happily married to a girl of the same age)
“We have no future, what do you find in someone my age?” Love at first sight between a 70-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, happily married to a girl of the same age.
She is Fanny Ardant with her powerful and fragile charisma and a mystery that never sets in her eyes, refined and independent, a retired architect who has archived her love life; he is Melvil Poupaud, an intelligent, reliable doctor. His wife is Cécile de France, at the height of her mature beauty. For her that betrayal is unimaginable. After her thunderous laugh, which contains the sense of ridicule and unreality for the lightning that destroys her family, “she shows herself generous, courageous,” says Fanny. Dear husband, go where your heart takes you, that woman needs you: «It is a declaration of love for her husband, she lets him go». Those two breathe the same air.
Young lovers by Carine Tardieu is the melodrama that shakes the Film Festival. Fanny sums it up beautifully: “She doesn’t know if she’s in love, but she knows, she struggles with being in love. And finally it dives. It is a meeting of two souls, a great story starts from there. There is nothing sexual about it. ‘ He didn’t think he was “the right person for this role. I don’t like my body and I was afraid that the director wanted to show it, I never did it even as a young man, the film would be buried by voyeurism, becoming the autopsy of a relationship between an elderly lady and a younger man. Carine reassured me. ‘
He says that the most important thing in life is love, “and the big one is beyond all expectations. Love is not given: it is taken. Nobody has to wait from society for permission to love a younger man. That woman is not seductive, it is precisely because she falls in love that she hesitates, she doesn’t dare to believe it, she thinks it’s a dream, a fantasy… ». Her daughter confronts him, tells him that her mother was fine before meeting him, asks him if it was worth it: “But he doesn’t judge his mother.” The daughter is less beautiful than the mother and there is no rivalry between them: “That’s the beauty of it, m
a the daughter knows that love can destroy the family ».
When he is younger… It happens more and more frequently, but cinema can’t tell it. “It’s true, it’s today’s Puritanism, yet Balzac’s heroines are older than their lovers, Marguerite Duras had a younger one for 19 years and didn’t cause a sensation.” “It took courage – says the director -, working on the old age you have to give up the image that the public has of you, which leads actresses to the illusory temptation of eternal youth. I couldn’t give the part to an actress who has had plastic surgery ». Fanny: “Me? Never done, what I saw on the others did not convince me, a 70-year-old woman will no longer be 40. When I’m very unhappy, I’m happy to be ugly ». We ask her what is the best film about the love of Truffaut, the director of her life. “The lady next door. Remember To fall in love with De Niro and Streep? There is an accommodation there, she goes back to her husband … Instead you can die of love, the dirty resignation of the love story, being afraid of it means dreading life. What kind of life do you want to have, quiet, warm, risk-free? It’s good to be afraid. Love has a price: are you ready to pay it? ».
The viewer leaves forgetting the age of the two protagonists.
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