"It's the moment for women,"
said Jodie Foster, honorary gold palm at Cannes.
On this second day of the Festival, it is especially the moment of Sophie Marceau.
All eyes will be on the one who was and remains "the little fiancee of the French".
She climbs the stairs this evening in the company of François Ozon for
Everything went well,
presented in competition.
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The L
a Boom
actress
has
n't appeared on the red carpet since 2015. “
I didn't feel like it anymore. There was a moment when, I don't know, I felt that I had to take my time,
”Sophie Marceau said today at RTL's microphone, to explain this long absence from cinema sets, after the commercial failure of his film
Mrs. Mills, such a perfect neighbor
.
Despite this long break, her meeting with the director François Ozon convinced her to return to her first love: “
I had other things to do and then one day we wanted again, we were struck by a story, a scenario, we meet a story that touches us.
»Added the actress interviewed today by our colleagues at BFMTV.
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A tailor-made role
This story that
"hit"
the actress is that of an octogenarian - played by André Dussolier - victim of a stroke. The latter, greatly diminished, requests the help of his daughter - played by Sophie Marceau - so that she puts an end to her life. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Emmanuel Bernheim. Disappeared in 2017, the novelist testified in this book of her own experience with her father. Through the eyes of the character played by Sophie Marceau, the film addresses the end of life, a universal theme that resonates with current events and questions around euthanasia, without being a plea. The feature film offers the actress, who has more than forty years of career behind her, her first selection in official competition.A first for the favorite female personality of the French whose appearances marked the ceremony.
An iconic actress of the Croisette
Sophie Marceau on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 where she revealed a breast.
PASCAL GUYOT / AFP
In 2015, Sophie Marceau was part of the jury then chaired by Ethan and Joel Cohen.
A first consecration for the actress whose appearances at the festival have always been very noticed.
Like that memorable moment in 2005, when the actress lets a breast appear for a few seconds.
An untimely overflow which she enjoys in
Journal du Dimanche
: “
It was an accident, that's what makes things moving.
But it happens every day in the world.
"
Sophie Marceau awarded the Palme d'Or to the Dardenne brothers for
Rosetta
in 1999. PASCAL GUYOT / AFP
The actress had already been under the fire of critics in 1999, booed after a fantastic speech when she awarded the Palme d'Or to the Dardenne brothers for
Rosetta: “I was not in the mood.
I was coming back from an afternoon with my Arc-en-Ciel association, which takes care of sick children.
The transition was a bit difficult ... I was given absurd texts that I did not want to read,
she recalled.
Normally, I prepare things well.
There I got confused, I had a hole.
I felt it coming ... It happens, it's just boring when it's in Cannes. "
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His spontaneity, his naturalness and his tendency to never take himself seriously should bring a breath of fresh air to this somewhat special edition due to the health crisis.
