While many show business couples have come undone over the years, the one formed by Sabine Azéma and Alain Renais had lasted 16 long years, only the death of the immense director having come to end this story. In France Days, the 72-year-old actress spoke of her tender love.
Alain Resnais died on March 1, 2014 at the age of 91. A real blow for Sabine Azéma, with whom he had been married since 1998 but whose life he had shared since the 1980s. The star has fond memories of this romance. “Resnais was gold. Someone very fine psychologically, who understood you. So delicate in his human relations. With him, on a platter, you were not distressed. You could dare, risk, he was happy“, she confided. Under the direction of her husband, she had thus played in the films We know the song, Love to death or Melo, Smoking / No Smoking … Reconciling love and work, the couple had succeeded where so many others had failed.
Deeply marked by the death of her husband, Sabine Azéma has managed to mourn little by little, devoting herself to her career. In 2017, she confided in the magazine Gala. “When we have experienced bereavement, many people realize – I already knew this, but it is even more significant – how precious the present is. So let’s take advantage. Train others“, she said then. The present, the actress doubly Caesarized wants to live it intensely and teems with desires. Questioned on her ambitions by France Days, she declares: “To live beautiful encounters, again and again. The desire to shoot pretty things together and to travel to unknown, imaginary lands. The others remain very important to me.“
Full interview to find in France Days, edition of January 7, 2022.