(ANSA) - CANNES, JUL 14 - Having four films at the festival, of which three in competition and discovering that they are positive for Covid despite the double vaccination is really a great misfortune.
It happens to Lea Seydoux, one of the best actresses of her generation, launched by La Vie d'Adele by Kechiche in 2013 where she won the Palme d'Or together with Adèle Exarchopoulos and the director.
News of her positivity circulated days ago and further confirmation came when the French actress was absent from the triumphant Montee des Marches of Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch" on July 12. So two days later he is satisfied, so to speak, with a double interpretation: in the competition film The story of my wife by the Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi with Josef Hader, Sergio Rubini and LouisGarrel, and in Deception (Inganno), directed by Arnaud Desplechin .
In the latter, Seydoux is disturbing, perfect in the part of the English lover of an American novelist momentarily in London. The film, written by the director with Julie Peyr, is based on the self-indulgent autobiographical autobiographical novel of the same name by Philip Roth from 1990, shot during the pandemic in September. At the center of the film is the relationship between Philip (Denis Podalydès) famous American writer who in 1987 lives in London in a sort of voluntary exile and his mistress who goes to find him regularly in his studio where they make love on the floor, talk about Jews, about literature , argue and talk, talk for hours about everything, including women who have made a mark in the writer's life.
Lover Lea (with award-winning costumes) with her charisma, imagination, freedom and empathy inspires him by becoming the very subject of the new novel. And then there are the other women, his wife (Anouk Grinberg), a former lover in New York with cancer (Emmanuelle Devos), another Czechoslovakian known years earlier.
A powerful story about love and deception, loyalty, love out of wedlock, intimacy. "I love this book: it's a wonderful romantic dialogue, a non-judgmental story, before the #MeToo movement," said the director.
(HANDLE).