We had to arm ourselves with incredible patience to discover In his lifetime, the new film by Emmanuelle Bercot. As you probably already know, the shooting has been postponed many times. Because of the health crisis, of course, but also because Catherine Deneuve, the heroine of the feature film, was the victim of a TIA – a Transient Ischemic Accident – while filming a scene at the Gonesse hospital center , in the Val d’Oise, on Tuesday, November 5, 2019.
“It was so difficult for me to make this film, between the moment we started shooting and what happened to me. This species, how to put it, of thunderclap, she explains to Point. I received lightning, that’s it, and we stopped. Emmanuelle decided that we were going to wait and then resume. And I also wanted it to resume, I was very attentive to it. Except that when it was going to resume, there was the Covid! And there, we plunged back into something else … I confined, like everyone else, I did what had to be done. And we resumed …” In his lifetime was finally presented, out of competition, at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, last July.
He was at home, in my apartment …
But it was a tough time for Catherine Deneuve on many levels. In addition to her health concerns, the pandemic that was ruining our planet, the actress also lost a loved one. “There was this recovery, and then the Covid, which was a tragically close moment for me, recalls the 78-year-old actress. Who put me in a state … I lost someone, who was at home, in my apartment. But I wanted to make this movie, because it’s not what it seems. “To discover this drama, which evokes the end of life of a man condemned by the disease much too young – brilliantly interpreted by Benoît Magimel -, go in dark rooms from November 24, 2021.
Find the full interview with Catherine Deneuve in Point of 11 November 2021.