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"Are there positive things on Instagram? Is there anything in Hell": Interview with Doria Tilia, one of the rising stars in France
Doria Tilia, one of the rising stars in France, is the daughter of an Israeli father whose half of the family lives in Israel.
In an interview with Walla!
Culture, she talks about the terrible failure at the graduation ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival under her direction, and explains why she abstains from social networks
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Avner Shavit, Cannes
Sunday, 25 July 2021, 00:09 Updated: 10:06
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This weekend, the French hit "The Beautiful Period in My Life", written by Nicholas Bedos, appeared here. It is attended by two of the most beloved French stars in Israel, Daniel Ottey and Fanny Arden, and alongside them also shines Doria Tilia, who is considered one of the rising stars in France, but is not yet so well known here.
There are several attractive and spicy ways to sell Tilia to the Israeli public. The provincial angle: to tell that although she was born and raised in France, her father was born and raised in Israel, and that side of her family still lives in Ramat Gan. The gossip angle: Bedos, who wrote and directed the film, was her partner during the filming and the two became a power couple who starred in the gossip columns in France. Since then the two have parted ways, but they have had to bump into each other all the time, for example at the last Cannes Film Festival. Topical angle: Tilia moderated the opening and closing ceremonies of the festival, and was a passive partner in one of the biggest nonsense in the history of this class, while she asked Speaker Lee Speaker Lee to announce at the beginning of the ceremony the first prize awarded during it, which is probably the least important of the decorations. He accidentally revealed the identity of the last prize - the winner of the Golden Palm, the most prestigious prize of all.
"Spike Lee did not understand what I was asking of him. The second he opened his mouth, I ran to him with my high heels and my long dress to stop him," she says in a conversation with me, which takes place immediately after the festival.
"Director Julia Dockerno, who won the Palme d'Or with 'Titan,' later said on stage that 'Perfection is a dead end.' I think that's right. I will forget this evening. "
Did you watch "The Knee", the Israeli film that won the Jury Prize at the ceremony?
"No, but I intend to do so."
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"The Beautiful Period in My Life" was already screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2019, but due to the corona, it is only now being distributed in Israel. As its name implies, it is a service that allows people to recreate a magical moment from the past with the help of a photo studio, professional actors, scenery and so on.
Daniel Ottey plays an aging artist who uses the sophisticated service to recreate the first encounter with his beloved, somewhere in the mid-1970s, and Tilia plays the actress who plays his beloved.
"Playing an actress helped me understand the essence of this profession," she says. "I realized the extent to which we bring ourselves into the role, the extent to which we use the dialogues written for us to talk about what really happened to us."
Yael Shuv, Time Out's film critic, wrote about the film after its first screenings that it was "one of the best romantic comedies of the previous decade." Now that a new decade has arrived and the cinemas have reopened and allowed for its commercial distribution, she added that "this is also one of the most romantic comedies of this decade."
"I'm very excited to hear that!", Responds Doria. "I'm a big fan of the genre, I grew up on Julia Roberts and I'm a big romantic. It's a genre that takes you back to your youth."
The movie is called "The Beautiful Period in My Life". How do you define beauty?
"It's a matriculation question in philosophy, it's hard for me to answer briefly. To me, beauty is what makes us smile, and what makes me smile is harmony - for example, the harmony of Sharon Stone's face, which I just met in Cannes. Or harmony between impossible idea and reality - like In Monty Python sketches. I hope I was clear! "
Can you say that you are now experiencing the beautiful period in your life?
"I hope not. I am very happy at the moment, but if I say that this is the period in my life, it will make me want to stop everything, instead of continuing because the best is still ahead of me."
Throughout the film, a pair of lovers talk about starting a fight very quickly.
Is that true of you too?
"It depends on the person. There are people you can quarrel with very quickly. Do you want to see?".
Queen of France.
Doria Tilia at this month's Cannes Film Festival (Photo: GettyImages, Kate Green)
Tilia, a native of Paris, studied acting but the French public first recognized her as a forecaster, and she gained international acclaim in the middle of the previous decade: then, she promised to submit the nude match if France beat Ukraine in the playoffs and qualify for the World Cup, and kept her word. In 2017, she collaborated for the first time with Bedos in the film "Mr. and Mrs. Eildman", which was screened in Israel at various festivals but was not distributed here. This year she also managed to play the daughter of Clara Bruni in the French-speaking political comedy "Presidents", and already in her first minutes the actress says a few words in Hebrew.
"It was my improvisation," says Tilia. "I was supposed to speak English, but a few days before the filming, director Anne Fontaine discovered by chance that I speak Hebrew. We filmed the scene in English as planned, but then Anne said to me, 'Maybe you will do it in Hebrew? It will be funny.' I think the randomness made her laugh. After all, no one expected the character to suddenly speak Hebrew, it has nothing to do with anything,And Hebrew is a much less common language than English. "
Do not search for her on Facebook.
Doria Tilia in "The Beautiful Period in My Life" (Photo: Nachshon Vered Cape Films)
You abstain from social media, and so does the gold-winning director Julia Docorno, but the fact that she searched and found on Instagram the star of her winning film.
So maybe Instagram is not such a bad thing?
"There are positive things everywhere, even in hell. I'm sure Instagram produces good things, but I'm convinced it produces more bad things. A world without social networks will be a better world. I recommend you watch 'The Social Dilemma'."
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