The trailer for the movie "Taking care of matters"/Nachshon Films
In her early fifties, Leah Drucker is enjoying a late professional bloom.
The French actress has been active since the early nineties, but most of the time she was quite unknown.
She was known mainly because of her last name - she is not related to Reviv and Sharon, but she is a relative of several French-Jewish personalities, for example her uncle, the famous TV presenter Michel Drucker.
In recent years, the actress has made a name for herself on her own merits, and you can see her everywhere.
She starred in "Custody" which won the directing award at the Venice Film Festival and "Kirba" which was nominated for an Oscar, and this year she was nominated for a César, the French Oscar, for her role in "The Last Summer" by Catherine Berea in which she played a woman having an affair with a minor who happens to also be her stepson.
Drucker can now also be seen in "Taking Care of Affairs", which was directed by her partner in life, Jean Rimbaldi.
This lovely movie comes out this weekend.
In it, the busy actress plays a single mother from the upper-middle class, who becomes involved in the life of her child's nanny and her friends - all of whom are French of African descent, who rebel against the conditions of their employment.
"Many of these women suffer from unacceptable employment conditions," she says in a telephone interview on the occasion of the film's release in Israel.
"They are not paid enough, they do not have social security and a pension, and often they do not have a legal status at all. We all have to fight to regulate their status and conditions. On the other hand, we also need to help mothers, because many of them cannot go to work because they cannot finance cares for their children."
"I see myself as quite privileged, and try to take advantage of my position to be aware, attentive and sensitive to what is happening around me, and to correct injustice."
Nothing to do with Raviv.
Leah Drucker/Mary Rouge/Unifrance
Sorry for the banal question, but what is it like to work with your partner?
"When I work with Julien on the shoots, for me he is the director, not my partner. At first I was afraid of working together, but it turned out to be a job like any other. Maybe we work together faster because we probably know each other. G "And Lian has nothing to do with me. It could be that if I wasn't his partner, he would be going round and round."
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From "Taking care of affairs"/Les Films du kiosque
Drucker also appeared in a small role in Nadav Lapid's "Synonyms", in which she played a teacher in government training for foreigners seeking French citizenship.
"I saw Nadav's previous film, 'The Teacher,' and it impressed me a lot," she says.
"We met in a cafe, and we talked for hours about many things not related to cinema. His way of working was fascinating to me - he is a great director. The role amused me because I learned a lot about our French Republic from this character."
Drucker recently reconnected with her Jewish identity in a French television docu about the ghettos, to which she contributed her voice.
"The film talks about the Warsaw ghetto but also about other ghettos. It has rare archive footage from which I learned a lot," she says.
"The Nazis filmed some of these segments, so it was an ethical question whether to use them. The images they present are very difficult. I thought I knew a lot about the Holocaust, but every time you dive into this story you are shocked anew. It was important to me that the narration be gentle and restrained and not sentimental, in order to give Real value and meaning to what you see.
"This film is a drop in the ocean when it comes to the memory of the Holocaust, yet it was important to me to make it.
Extremism, racism and anti-Semitism are also born as a result of fake news.
Ignorance breeds hatred."
"Nadav Lapid is a great director."
Leah Drucker in "Les film du Kiosque".
At this year's César ceremony, three of the five films nominated for the Best Picture award were by female directors - including "The Last Summer" starring you.
We can all see France as a role model in this regard.
"It's wonderful. The women are finally getting the place they deserve, and not because they're doing us a favor. These films were nominated because they're wonderful films by wonderful directors."
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