With A girl who is well, in theaters Wednesday January 26, 2022, Sandrine Kiberlain takes her first steps behind the camera. The actress with golden hair decided to pose the plot of this first feature film as a director in a Jewish family, during the Second World War. The Nazi threat does not prevent Irene, the daughter, from living with the crazy energy of her 19 years. This one wants to think only of the theater and especially of the contest which it will pass in order to return to the Academy.
“I wanted the film to be timeless. So that it would allow us to bounce back to the current period, so that we never forget. Without falling into anachronism, it is not because we are under the Occupation that we can’t say we love each other, with a life drive that’s all the stronger because she feels threatened. My heroine is a little bird in a storm”, tells Sandrine Kiberlain to journalists and readers of Ouest-France, Sunday January 23, 2022.
Sandrine Kiberlain confides on the set of Laurent Delahousse
To discuss the next release of this first feature film as a director, Sandrine Kiberlain went to Laurent Delahousse’s set at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday on France 2. In order to reveal her inspirations, the actress notably mentioned the testimony of his maternal grandmother. “It took a while” for the latter to tell him what she had experienced during the Occupation. “Corn I am imbued with this history, it is my heritage”,told the fifties to the companion of Alice Taglioni.
“I used everything she told me but also encounters that I was able to do to process this point of view where she told me – my grandmother and many of those I have met who came out alive from this period – that it was a period, when they were hidden, where they were very happy, there was a joy of living and a desire to live no doubt because of this threat which was becoming more and more present. There was a life drive and that’s what I wanted to film. Not showing the war but showing in the present what they were going through when they were 20 years old and they couldn’t expect us to know what happened today. “, she added.
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