“He’s not just another director, he’s someone who left his mark on me,” reacts Marina Foïs

“He’s not just another director, he’s someone who left an impact on me,” actress Marina Foïs reacts Thursday April 25 on franceinfo after the death of director Laurent Cantet, at the age of 63, from illness. The actress played the leading role in “L’Atelier” co-written and directed by Laurent Cantet, released in 2017. In 2008, the filmmaker received the Palme d’Or for his film “Entre les Murs”.

Marina Foïs confides that Laurent Cantet has “deposit” something in her. “His set was special, she explains, because what really drove him was the search for meaning”. For this, the director surrounded himself with everyone: “There was no time for actors, time for light, he led everyone with a certain authority but with Olympian calm, with a lot of rigor and a lot of humility too.”

“His films will remain”

The actress believes that Laurent Cantet “warned each other of the ego movements that we could have and which ruin us and me, he protected me from that. He taught me that and it’s something that stays with me and What I often think about.

Marine Foïs is sure of it, “his films will remain”. “He’s someone who really spoke about the world he inhabited, he was very contemporary and at the same time he’s an anachronistic figure because he’s not someone noisy, he’s not Someone who shows off is not someone who is cynical at all.”she adds.