Let's get rid of “the” question right away: the actress Elsa Zylberstein, who was decked out with two heavy prostheses intended to round her cheeks, manages to inhabit the character of Simone Veil with accuracy.
Some scenes showing the latter at the twilight of her life are even striking.
Likewise, Rebecca Marder, who plays her in her younger years, bursts onto the screen.
Simone's two sons, Jean and Pierre-François, who reread the script, saw the film several times, and were overwhelmed.
Simone, the journey of the century
, by Olivier Dahan, recounts the rich and tormented life of this committed politician, from childhood to the end.
Between family life in La Ciotat, deportation to Auschwitz, his fight for the dignity of Algerian prisoners at the end of the 1950s, the epic of the law on abortion in 1974, the political commitment in
favor of Europe and against the FN, the trajectory of Simone Veil goes beyond fiction.
Public woman, she told herself...
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