Anaïs Demoustier, yesterday still a film prodigy actress, continues to flourish on the screen. Rewarded by a César for best actress for Alice and the mayor , this radiant 32-year-old actress shines there as an adviser to a disillusioned politician.
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In Nicolas Pariser's film, she embodies a young Norman philosopher, intellectual and logger, charged with advising a mayor of Lyon in cruel lack of new ideas, embodied by Fabrice Luchini. "Anaïs Demoustier is an extraordinarily talented actress , " said the director. Without forgetting to add: "And its great strength is to manage to make natural and inhabit any text" .
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With this role, this thirty-something with a pretty face strewn with freckles enriches an already extensive filmography since she began her career in the early 2000s. The prodigy was then only twelve years old.
And this fine journey has already awarded her several César nominations: two in the category of best female hope, for Les Grandes personnes in 2009 and D'amour et d'eau fraîche in 2011, and one for the César for best supporting role for The Villa in 2018, without having been awarded so far.
A talented entertainer with false wise airs and a mischievous look, she has won over more than forty films, under the direction of prestigious filmmakers like Michael Haneke, Robert Guédiguian, Bertrand Tavernier, Christophe Honoré or François Ozon.
The Romy-Schneider Prize
Born September 29, 1987 in Lille, daughter of a sales executive in mass distribution and a stay-at-home mother, Anaïs Demoustier took acting lessons before being spotted by a casting director as a teenager.
She was not yet 15 when she was chosen in 2002 to play the daughter of Isabelle Huppert in Le Temps du Loup by Michael Haneke. “I really had the opportunity to see what it was like to make films. It was after that that I wanted to continue, " she said in 2015." It was a kind of shock, " added the actress, saying that this film also " inevitably directed the proposals "that gave her been made "to an author's cinema" .
She passed her baccalaureate and enrolled in Letters before going on to little roles, then to stand out in 2008 in La Belle Personne by Christophe Honoré, alongside Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel.
She then toured with Rébecca Zlotowski ( Belle Épine ), Robert Guédiguian ( Les Neiges du Kilimanjaro , then Au fil d'Ariane and La Villa ), Claude Miller ( Thérèse Desqueyroux ) or Bertrand Tavernier ( Quai d'Orsay ), and won in 2011 the Romy-Schneider Prize.
Comedy and auteur cinema
In 2014, she was featured in Bird People by Pascale Ferran, Au Fil d'Ariane by Robert Guédiguian and Une Nouvelle amie by François Ozon.
The following year, it lends its freshness to the lover of A trois on y va by Jérôme Bonnell - a director who praises his "valor" , his "courage" and his "energy" . She plays the role of Mélodie, "a volunteer girl, who is in action," she says. Before adding: " He's a character I can feel pretty close to. I've been in the action for quite a long time. I started working very young . "
We then see her in Caprice by Emmanuel Mouret where she plays an excessive young woman in love with a schoolteacher, then in Marguerite and Julien by Valérie Donzelli, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, with the story of a brother and of a sister, executed in 1603 for adultery and incest, and in Les Malheurs de Sophie by Christophe Honoré.
In recent years, Anaïs Demoustier has performed as well under the direction of a director of absurd and offbeat comedies as Quentin Dupieux ( Au poste! ) As under that of Frédéric Tellier ( Save or perish with Pierre Niney), of Félix Moati ( Deux son ) or Robert Guédiguian ( Gloria Mundi ).
Today mother of a little girl born from her love story with actor Jérémie Elkaïm, she is on the poster of a film directed by her brother, Stéphane Demoustier, La Fille au bracelet , in which she embodies a very determined general counsel. The César 2020 can definitely play everything with equal happiness ...
● Alice and the Mayor of Nicolas Pariser in 2019, with Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier ...
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