A short career but not the least. Adèle Exarchopoulos has integrated the landscape of French cinema in a short time. Revealed by the film The Life of Adele (2013), she has since surprised with her audacious and singular role choices. From the darkness of North ferry passing through the absurd humor of Mandiblethe 28-year-old actress amazes and conquers the public.
The regular on the Croisette is back in force for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. She is starring in two films: The Five Devils by Léa Mysius and Smoking makes you cough by Quentin Dupieux.
It all started in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. At the Acte 9 theatre, the young actress discovered her love for the arts. She practiced there for four years, notably in improvisation, promoting street performances. VSThis is how Adèle Exarchopoulos was spotted by a talent agent.
He offers her to participate in her first casting for a feature film with Jean Rochefort. First try, first failure. MBut his test video turns in the artistic agencies and attracts attention. She plays for the first time in the cinema in Martha, by Jean-Charles Hue.
The actress then continues the roles: a young teenager in boxes directed by Jane Birkin, a heroine in The Children of Timplebach by Nicholas Bary or a victim of the Vel’ d’Hiv’ in The Roundup by Roselyn Bosch. But a role has left a strong imprint in his filmography.
Impossible to miss The Life of Adele by Abdellatif Kechiche. The story of Adèle, a fifteen-year-old teenager, who sees her life changed by an encounter with a young woman with blue hair, called Emma. She helps the young teenager to discover herself and to flourish in a homosexual relationship. Despite the gaze of others, Adèle grows and asserts herself as a woman.
A real ordeal for the young actress: a casting over two months, a director who draws from the deepest intimacy of his actors, the Kechiche method is tough and demanding.
A long and tedious job but a great film and a huge success. Adele Exarchopoulos and his partner Léa Seydoux receive the interpretation prize, and the film, the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
The world is snapping up feature films: from the United States to Australia, from Canada to Brazil. Even Russia, a country where homophobia is strong, claims it. The actress is known all over the world.
A suitor with the heart of a monkey (The flame by Jonathan Cohen), a melancholy air hostess (I don’t give a fuck by Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre) or a woman who can only express herself by screaming (mandibles by Quentin Dupieux), Adele Exarchopoulos has several strings to its bow. Her roles, she chooses meticulously: characters with a strong temperament with a touch of complexity, in accordance with her convictions.
She assumes the hollows in her agenda, so much so that during her pregnancy she is hired to sell sandwiches at Bercy on concert evenings. “I needed to earn my little crust“, she said in the columns of Parisian.
Hedonistic, she refused many roles to live a harmonious pregnancy: “I prefer life to movies. Having a child is the most important thing in the world“, she confided on a daily basis.