In this second season ofIn therapy there are 5 characters taking off and one in particular taking off. It is in the third episode that the series, already very sure of itself, changes dimension and overflows its frame by the magic of an alchemy, that resulting from the gaze that a director poses on a performer, and vice- versa – each “patient” is filmed by a director thus forming a duo throughout the series.
“We found each other”confirms Suzanne Lindon, whom we meet in Lille in March, at the Series Mania festival. ” My father [l’acteur Vincent Lindon] always told me to do what suits me, and Arnaud suits me like a piece of clothing.”, she says, smiling, of Arnaud Desplechin, the filmmaker who directed the 7 episodes devoted to Lydia, an architecture student suffering from cancer. Suzanne Lindon is a young woman who weighs her words and loves formulas. Steeped in analysis – she confesses without false modesty seeing a shrink since her childhood – she lets out Lacanian sallies that would not be out of place in the office of Doctor Dayan, the shrink ofIn therapy. Like this “my game, I don’t see it”which we pretend not to notice.
Despite a notoriety as fast as violent at the release of her first film as a director, in 2021, sixteen springSuzanne Lindon, 21, has so far filmed little. “After my film, I had offers, but I didn’t feel it. I’m in no hurry, I don’t want to shoot for the sake of shooting. » The role of Lydia was also his first casting. And she is not a little proud to have won, determined that the character comes back to her. “I have a weird background. I made a film very young: I’m afraid of being expected around the corner, but I’m also afraid that no one is expecting me! To have been chosen for the first time, and especially by Arnaud, is super important. We teamed up right away.”she marvels again.
A “very Franco-French” universe
There is indeed something natural in seeing the actress evolve under the eye of someone who, since the 1990s, has filmed so much of youth, the time of study and first love. “I wanted to take her and pull her towards my idiosyncrasies, while welcoming hers”he admitted one morning in February, a few weeks before we met Suzanne. “We were both very awkward for the first episode… Lydia is unpleasant and Suzanne hates it! » ” But on In therapy, he says, you have to respect the way of being in the world of the people you are filming. The takes are so long that their way of being in the world is your best ally. Besides, I don’t believe that we can film psychoanalysis; on screen, psychoanalysis immediately becomes psychotherapy. »
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