The actress slips into the eighties culottes of Elisabeth who, freshly left by her husband, must reinvent herself to raise her adolescent son and daughter.
When she finds a job in a nocturnal program of Radio France, she meets Talulah, a young lost person whom she takes in.
“Élisabeth is as vulnerable as she is determined and solid, as lucid as she is naive.
I wanted to write a character who escapes the classifications of use”, explains the director, who paints the multidimensional portrait of a woman in reconstruction whose fragility is never considered as a weakness.
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A dual learning story
Full screen
Quito Rayon-Richter, Noée Abita, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Megan Northam and Didier Sandre.
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It is a sentimental education at two speeds that these Passengers of the Night
also tell :
while his son (the revelation Quito Rayon-Richter) experiences his first love affair with the guest of the house (Noée Abita, already incredible in
Ava
and in
Slalom
),
the heroine learns to love and trust herself again.
"Her shyness could encourage her to protect herself and to hide, but not at all, she is not afraid to be disconcerted, and barely hides her tears in front of her children...", says Charlotte Gainsbourg.
“No doubt I made use of my own shyness and my own weaknesses, towards which I have no shame either.”
Gainsbourg at the museum
Busy news for Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is working on the upcoming opening of Maison Gainsbourg, at 5 bis, rue de Verneuil, in Paris, her father's mythical address: a museum, a bookstore-boutique and the Gainsbarre, café-restaurant le day and piano bar at night.
An event awaited for thirty years by fans of the legendary artist.maisongainsbourg.fr
Fine writing
Heartbreak, addiction, loss of material and emotional landmarks: despite the harshness of the themes, it is gentleness, sisterhood and optimism that dominate in this chronicle which avoids any psychologization.
“Everything is based on tenderness, on an outstretched hand, an emotion out of pathos.
It might seem cutesy, steeped in good feelings, but it would be without counting on Mikhaël's delicacy.
It's hard to find better words than those of Charlotte Gainsbourg to describe this marvel of sensitivity.
The Passengers of the Night
, by Mikhaël Hers, with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon-Richter, Noée Abita…
