“The question of welcoming exiles is something that touches me”, confides Marina Foïs

It could be a tale, a parable: how do we change our outlook on migrants through the chances of life? But it’s a true story, filmed as close as possible to the bodies, that they are alive, directed and written by Jérémie Elkaïm. Marina Foïs plays the leading role, that of the widow of a police officer, with far-right opinions, who lives a love affair with an Iranian exile in Calais. The story of a life change “very moving and courageous”, according to the actress who was the guest of franceinfo, Wednesday, February 23, on the occasion of the release of the film.

“You would still have to be completely stupid to imagine that this is a situation in which we will never find ourselves.”

Marina Fois

at franceinfo

“The question of exile, like the question of welcoming exiles, is something that touches me, explains Marina Foïs, because very basically, we are talking about the hierarchization of human beings, as if some had more value or more rights than others. This is a very brutal question. I can’t understand how a system like ours can let that question arise, in fact.”

For the actress, Jérémie Elkaïm’s film is not necessarily moralistic, but gives the opportunity “it is up to each spectator to form a moral opinion which is completely his own”. For Marina Fois, they are alive is not a movie either “frontally political” : “He asks a very simple question: The fate we reserve for migrants, what does it say about us?”