The actress-director is on all fronts.
Her film
Aline,
inspired by the life of Quebec song star Céline Dion, which she interprets with brilliance and sensitivity, is being released in the United States these days.
From January 21, Valérie Lemercier is back on stage and will be performing at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris.
At the same time, she is finishing her next film, which will be a cartoon.
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Miss Figaro.
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We find you on the boards in
Les Sœurs Bienaimé.
What's the pitch?
Valerie Lemercier.
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Already, the piece does not take place in a Parisian living room on a sofa, but in the Cévennes, in a sheepfold.
Two sisters meet again after twenty years.
I play the eldest, Michèle, a nurse who stayed in the countryside.
Pascale (played by Isabelle Gélinas) is gone.
The big sister, who raised her, felt abandoned and takes a very dim view of her return...
It's about reuniting with childhood going back...
Yes, and there are a lot of adventures, it's physical... In fact, it's about a trio because, in our midst, there is Patrick Catalifo, still a bit in love with the youngest, and who had a brief history with the eldest.
Valérie Lemercier and Isabelle Gélinas in
Les Sœurs Bienaimé,
by Brigitte Buc.
Photo Victor Tonelli
The play was written and directed by your accomplice Brigitte Buc.
We've been friends since we were 15.
We wanted to do theatre.
On vacation, we didn't go to the beach.
We were all white, we ate sweets and we read plays by Musset and Marivaux.
You worked a lot together…
We did the conservatory.
I acted in his plays and we wrote three films,
Palais Royal!, Aline
and a cartoon that we are in the process of making.
It was while we were writing
Aline
that Brigitte offered me a reading of her play.
Have you been conquered?
We were on such a liner:
Aline,
which takes place over eighty years, with I don't know how many sets… The simplicity of the theatre, a set, a few actors, seemed to me to be an escape.
It must be said that the play is very funny.
And then you form an informal troupe all four ...
A family, almost.
We've all played in Brigitte's plays.
In addition, Isabelle Gélinas and I, we look alike physically.
We could be sisters.
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You who are alone on stage, do you like rediscovering the collective side of the theater?
Sharing, playing together, that's what I like in the cinema or in the theatre.
That said, when I do one-man shows, I play characters who are never alone, I always have imaginary partners.
I never address the public as Valerie.
It's not stand-up.
January 21 is a big day. You go back on stage and
Aline
is released in the United States!
It's quite rare for French films to be released with a real distributor, in many states and not just in a theater in New York or LA I measure my luck. The film was released in Japan at Christmas, a real gift. I would have liked to be there but, unfortunately, you cannot travel to Japan.
Aline
and
Les Soeurs Bienaimé
have one thing in common: sorority…
I come from a large family.
My parents were farmers.
We were all making music.
We are four sisters, I am very close to them.
I was very happy when the production invited them to Cannes for the screening of
Aline.
We climbed the stairs all four.
They are my base.
The Bienaimé Sisters,
by Brigitte Buc, from January 21 at the Antoine Theater in Paris.
theatre-antoine.com
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