Adèle Haenel has not appeared on the big screen since her stunt against Roman Polanski in the middle of the Cesar 2020 ceremony. But according to some fans with a lynx look, that could change.
Going through the list of films eligible for a tax reduction in Belgium, a cinephile noticed that the name of the actress from
Portrait of the young girl on fire
appeared in the credits of Bruno Dumont's next film.
Entitled
The Empire,
this feature film would see her share the poster with Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp and Fabrice Luchini. It remains to confirm the information. No details have filtered on the shooting dates.
As always with the director of
Ma Loute
et
France
, who had been received with great reserve at Cannes, the synopsis is breathtaking: “
Under the outsides of the common life of the inhabitants of a fishing village on the arises the parallel and epic life of knights of interplanetary empires.
In prey to the bloody struggles of these clans at the announcement of the birth of Margat, Prince resurgent, mauve and filthy, Beast of the End of Times, located here on the Coast and child of a young separated couple, as usual of their condition in a residential area.
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France
A break at the cinema, a passage through the theater
On the front line of the MeToo movement in France, Adèle Haenel had caused a stir by revealing that she had been, as a teenager, the victim of sexual harassment and touching by the filmmaker Christophe Ruggia.
During the César 2020, the 32-year-old actress, present with the
Portrait of the young girl on fire
team , had left the Salle Pleyel screaming "Shame" and "Long live pedophilia", when Roman Polanski had received the statuette for the best director for his fresco on the Dreyfus affair
I accuse
in front of a surprised and embarrassed audience.
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After this coup, the actress had made herself discreet, disappearing from film sets but participating in committed documentaries
Regard noir
and
Retour à Reims
.
At the
Financial Times
, Adèle Haenel, who had refused to present a César at the 2021 ceremony, had explained that she did not want to return to the studios immediately:
“I do not want to do 20,000 other things.
It's not a career choice, it's a life choice.
After the lifting of the confinement, she was able to begin a tour of the theater with the play
L'Étang
by Gisèle Vienne.