Blandine Lenoir's third film
(Zouzou)
bears the word "anger" in its title.
Yet it conveys virtually none.
And this is not the least paradox of this benevolent, poignant and successful film.
We are in 1974, in the heart of France which gets up early.
While women have just obtained the right to open a bank account in their name without the consent of their husbands, the heroine works in a mattress factory.
She criss-crosses the countryside on her bike, her mind fully engaged, bag slung over her shoulder, gaze on the road.
Here is already the index of a woman in motion, which Blandine Lenoir's camera soberly follows.
It is Laure Calamy (César for best actress in 2021 for
Antoinette in the Cévennes
) who embodies with passion and conviction this worker married to Philippe and happy in the household.
The couple are raising two children.
But Annie Colère becomes pregnant for the third time.
Mortified, this simple woman nevertheless refuses to have recourse to abortion...
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