On February 2, Fanny Ardant will star in the film Les jeunes amants alongside Melvil Poupaud and Cécile de France. In this work, the actress will play Shauna. She is an independent and free 70-year-old woman who preferred to put her love life aside. But everything changes the day she meets Pierre, a 45-year-old man. The two individuals mutually feel an attraction towards each other. Only here, the scoundrel is already married and father of a family.
Infidelity is not only a scourge that can be found in mushy movies or dramas. Indeed, many of us have already had our hearts broken. Fanny Ardant does not think so well since she herself was deceived as she explained in the columns of the magazine Miss Figaro.“I want to die (…) It’s as if you were badly burned. But the experience is useless. You start over. There is a sentence in On ne badine pas avec l’amour ( Editor’s note: Alfred de Musset): “I suffered, but I loved. It was I who lived…” (…) And this sentence from Pasolini that I like a lot: “You have to burn to arrive consumed at the last fire’.” An eternal and great romantic…” explained the actress.
During this same interview, Fanny Ardant shared her vision of love and passion. “It’s dazzling, urgent, absolute necessity. It’s an impetus, like the mystical life, from which no one, and especially not reason, can turn you away. But if I meet a couple who love from day one, no arrangement, so I kneel before them” described the former companion of François Truffaut.
Speaking of his role, Melvil Poupaud made revelations about the filming of intimate scenes with his colleague. “It was cute, from the first scenes we shot, I felt her quite fragile, very shy, very modest. She apprehended the kissing scenes, the scenes where there is something very carnal, very tender between us. During these scenes, she said in my ear: ‘I’m counting on you to get carried away, because I’m not capable of doing that, it’s up to you to kiss me.’ There was a very adolescent side to it, almost like a first kiss.” he confided about Fanny Ardent at Europe 1. An eternal romantic then!