Lisa Azuelos has so much to say about her late mother, singer Marie Laforêt (who died in 2019 at the age of 80), their relationship having been so complex. This mother-daughter relationship which has never been linear, the 56-year-old director addresses it in her new film I Love America, available for a week on Amazon Prime Video. This feature film shot in Los Angeles is not only a romantic comedy that once again perfectly highlights the sublime Sophie Marceau, it is also a reflection on forgiveness. Lisa Azuelos has put a lot of her personal life into it. A subject she discussed with Laurent Ruquier and Léa Salamé on Saturday March 19, 2022, in a new issue ofWe are live (France 2).
A close friend of Marie Laforêt in the last part of his life, Laurent Ruquier knew the singer very well and had received many confidences from the artist. The animator shared one of them with Lisa Azuelos when it came to one of his previous films, LOL, also with Sophie Marceau. “I remember she told me when she had LOL… began the host before speaking directly to Lisa Azuelos: “I never told you this confidence…” “She said to me: ‘Good, Françoise Fabian in the role of the mother of Sophie Marceau… Very good but I would have been much better‘” he shared, making the guests laugh with this anecdote. Laurent Ruquier then asked Lisa Azuelos if my mom would have liked to play in the film. “I don’t know where we were at that time, maybe we weren’t talking. Because there have been ups and downs”she confided.
But one thing is certain, Lisa Azuelos had already turned her mother in the past, in her first film So be it. An experience that the director absolutely does not regret, as she enjoyed working with her mother but which she described as “not easy“because the film, very little known to the public, was not.
With its issue of Saturday March 19, We are live signed its all-time audience record with 1.23 million viewers, the leader among all audiences.