In this new documentary, actress Aure Atika paints a portrait of the three-César actress who died in 2011. And for the first time Giulia Salvatori, Annie Girardot’s daughter, testifies to the violence suffered by her mother.
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A celebrity who tells the story of another who has disappeared, this is the concept of the Canal+ Docs documentary collection entitled: She talks about herself. After Géraldine Nakache who evoked Gisèle Halimi or even Carole Bouquet Coco Chanel, in this new part broadcast Monday April 8 at 9 p.m., the actress and director, Aure Atika, chose to pay tribute to the legendary Annie Girardot. She discusses this Canal+ meeting with Caroline Cochaux, producer and creator of this collection.
“It was already a challenge to find an important female figure, because we realize that it is easier to find male figures than female figures.“, underlines Aure Atika. The idea of this collection is to draw parallels between the one who tells and the one who is told.Annie Girardot is “unot important figure, it was a great actress who didn’t act, she was. She was sweating in her character“, underlines Aure Atika, before adding: “cis a woman for whom life was more important than cinema and love was even more important. She was a woman who lived things at 200%.“.
Caroline Cochaux, the producer and creator of this collection, notes that the common point between all these women is “that they are free, that they have earned their freedom”. “Annie Girardot was a woman who fought to be who she was, who went through incredible and unspeakable trials and who continued to represent who she was“, she says.
“She was a beaten woman, even though she represented freedom”
There are also some very strong moments in this documentary, especially when Giulia SalvatoriAnnie Girardot’s daughter, speaks about the domestic violence her mother suffered. “She was with the actor Bernard Fresson for some time and there was very intense domestic violence, since he broke her entire jaw.”, explains Aure Atika. If Giulia bears witness to this violence for the first time, it is not because there is a statute of limitations, but because she has not “no one left to protect”reports Aure Atika.
“She was a battered woman, while she represented freedom, strength, continues Caroline Cochaux. “She explains in the documentary that finally, she could leave the house. She could go get her daughter, she no longer needed to be accountable for doing something. She was no longer afraid. It’s still all the same crazy”, continues the producer of the series. While Annie Girardot just defined this relationship as “toxic“.
So will there be a men’s version of the collection with a He talks about himself ? Caroline Cochaux does not rule out the idea: “It would be possible. I would love. It will be another form of cross-section, but it is very interesting: how men talk about others“.