Rachida Brakni and Anaïde Rozam, the friendly crush of La cour des miracles

At the head of the Jacques Prévert primary school, which is threatened by the construction of a flamboyant new school in Seine-Saint-Denis, Zahia (Rachida Brakni) wants to create the first green school in the suburbs.

To achieve her goals, she can count on the help of Marion (Anaïde Rozam), a young teacher full of dreams and close to nature, but also on the rest of the teaching staff embodied by Sébastien Chassagne, Raphaël Quenard, Disiz, Gilbert Molky... In full promotion of the release of this intelligent and

comedy with a cast as diverse as it is endearing and signed Carine May and Hakim Zouhani, Rachida Brakni and Anaïde Rozam recall, for

, their memories of filming and school desks.

Encounter full of life.

Kindness

Madame Figaro.- Do you remember your meeting?

I didn't know Anaïde and I met her when she took the tests.

We did a work session and I came out of it saying to the directors: "She's the one to take!"

In the energy she gave off and also because she is a very well brought up girl (a very important quality for me), I liked her.

But she was also attentive, generous and curious.

I had a crush on her and the current passed immediately between us.

I was very happy that she played Marion because she has a kind of innocence, a form of candor, without it being naivety, which fits her character perfectly.

And she has something from another time.

It's quite strange,

because I didn't know her via social networks (Anaïde Rozam made herself known with her sketches on Instagram, editor's note) and I think that if someone had spoken to me about it beforehand, I would probably have had a priori because that this tool is so reductive.

But when I found out what she was doing, I thought it was very smart because she knew how to use Instagram wisely, controlling this filthy beast.

For me, it's a sign of intelligence to have both my feet firmly rooted in a reality, and also to have a culture and a somewhat old-fashioned curiosity.

she was doing, I thought it was very clever because she knew how to use Instagram wisely, by controlling this filthy beast.

For me, it's a sign of intelligence to have both my feet firmly rooted in a reality, and also to have a culture and a somewhat old-fashioned curiosity.

she was doing, I thought it was very clever because she knew how to use Instagram wisely, by controlling this filthy beast.

For me, it's a sign of intelligence to have both my feet firmly rooted in a reality, and also to have a culture and a somewhat old-fashioned curiosity.

Thank you my Rachida, I love you (laughs)!

I knew Rachida, whom I first discovered in

by Coline Serreau when I was 11 or 12 years old.

I had found the film so violent that I didn't go to the end, but I saw it again later and found it magnificent.

When I found myself facing Rachida for the trials of

, I felt like she was like a big sister or an aunt.

She immediately supported me, enveloped me, without any form of lift over me.

I immediately liked his benevolent gaze on me.

Today, if I need an opinion on my game, my hesitations, my shyness, or even on personal questions: she is there for me.

We really became very close, she is like a little angel on my shoulder protecting me.

That's where I see that I'm getting old, it's horrible (laughs)!

It's funny because when young actresses like Anaïde or Lyna Khoudri, with whom I played

of Mounia Meddour, who tell me that I have been an example or who thank me for having opened doors, I understand that I have passed a milestone.

Suddenly, the relationship to time that I was not concerned about makes me notice that today there is a generation between us.

cinema dream

What strong memories do you keep from the shoot?

My first strong memory remains reading the script all together because it was one thing to read it alone, but to hear it embodied by different voices, rhythms and breaks, was great.

To see us all gathered around the table with our energies made me think that the cast was already really a talent of the directors.

The actors stuck to their characters so much that it was quite jubilant to discover this heterogeneous palette with real personalities.

But it's not easy to find uniqueness and the group because in general, when you have very strong personalities, they don't always blend into a group.

For me, one of the greatest successes of the film is to have brought together very strong individuals and to

It's a bit of a cliché to say that, but the highlights, for me, were lived a bit every day.

It was my first important role, and I understood that it was a responsibility in a film.

A lot of things rest on your shoulders: seeing this big camera behind which 30 people were waiting for me to talk changed me from my videos shot alone in my room... The first few days were therefore quite disturbing but extremely enjoyable, and I ended up to relax.

Anaïde, was the cinema your goal at the start?

Yes, it was even a dream not buried at all.

I had my baccalaureate with a theater specialty then I did a theater school in parallel with my studies in psychology.

I've always wanted to make films, but growing up, I understood that it was a very closed profession and that it required not only talent and work, but also luck.

At the end of my bachelor's degree, as I did not see myself starting a master's degree, I naturally began to make my videos and characters more and more distinct, telling myself that this would serve as a demo tape for me and then everything went chained: I met an agent and I started to land small roles.

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Anaïde Rozam and Rachida Brakni in The Court of Miracles.

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good students

Do you remember the students you were both?

My results really depended on my teachers.

I could have very good grades in history-geography because the teacher made me want to, for example, and I needed to ask a lot of questions.

I could be top of the class as last, but I still had more ability in literary subjects.

I loved school but I was very talkative.

My mother recently gave me my school reports and the conclusion was often the same: “Good student but talkative”.

I loved learning and I loved school so much that the end of the year was heartbreaking.

I was looking forward to the first day of school, especially since my mother was buying me a new outfit for the event that I looked at as a treasure, I was overexcited.

I liked school so much that I always said to myself that later, when my children are grown up, I will go back.

I dream of going to the Sorbonne for example, attending conferences, or resuming a course because it is the place of knowledge.

That's where

we learn to defend ourselves because words are an extraordinary weapon.

It is the place where one learns to articulate a thought, to be curious, where one discovers the world.

It was at school that I discovered the world with a big M. In terms of subjects, I loved French, literature, history and philosophy, but I don't have good memories of physics.

When I passed the science test in my baccalaureate, I found the problem so stupid that I preferred not to answer it and talk about the philosopher focused on science, Gaston Bachelard, instead.

The examiner gave me 0.5 which was nice because the zero was eliminatory… It was a real gamble!

It was at school that I discovered the world with a big M. In terms of subjects, I loved French, literature, history and philosophy, but I don't have good memories of physics.

When I passed the science test in my baccalaureate, I found the problem so stupid that I preferred not to answer it and talk about the philosopher focused on science, Gaston Bachelard, instead.

The examiner gave me 0.5 which was nice because the zero was eliminatory… It was a real gamble!

It was at school that I discovered the world with a big M. In terms of subjects, I loved French, literature, history and philosophy, but I don't have good memories of physics.

When I passed the science test in my baccalaureate, I found the problem so stupid that I preferred not to answer it and talk about the philosopher focused on science, Gaston Bachelard, instead.

The examiner gave me 0.5 which was nice because the zero was eliminatory… It was a real gamble!

I preferred not to answer it and talk about the philosopher focused on science, Gaston Bachelard, instead.

The examiner gave me 0.5 which was nice because the zero was eliminatory… It was a real gamble!

I preferred not to answer it and talk about the philosopher focused on science, Gaston Bachelard, instead.

The examiner gave me 0.5 which was nice because the zero was eliminatory… It was a real gamble!

I liked school so much that I always said to myself that later, when my children are grown up, I will go back.

Rachida Brakni

What trait of your personality stood out in the group?

I was more of a leader myself.

That doesn't surprise me (laughs)!

For me, it really depended on the groups.

I could sometimes feel there was room for humor and I was going to be the center of attention a bit.

But conversely, certain personalities could make me rather want to observe and remain silent.

As a child, I was surrounded by cousins ​​with very strong personalities and as I was the only child -my mother adores me-, I tried to attract attention, but in a somewhat capricious way.

I was the eldest at home so I immediately had responsibilities and wiped the pot.

My parents relied on me and since they couldn't read, I was the one who read them my report cards.

I was therefore very quickly responsible and I did a lot of things, I was a bit like a second mother for my brother and my sister.

When you're the eldest, things have to go well, you have to drain the group behind you.

Brassens and Anne Sinclair

Which universes allowed you to escape?

Books and sport.

We had a television locked with a padlock at home and I sometimes want to reproduce what I experienced with my children.

They don't have a phone or a computer, and when I think they're exaggerating, I tell them they're spoiled because I didn't have all that at their age.

But I really have to stop with that because my son has a completely distorted image of my childhood, when I was super happy!

My mother often took me to the theater and showed me a lot of very good films but sometimes too early, like

or

which had traumatized me.

My father took me to the circus and I painted a lot with him, I also played the piano.

Hearing a lot of classical music at his house developed my imagination and my artistic side.

What are your Proust madeleines?

by Georges Brassens, which I listened to a lot as a child, and whose mustache reminded me of my father's.

Anne Sinclair's show, "7 sur 7", one of the only ones we were allowed to watch, and which I followed lying on the sofa next to my father.