Director of great cinematographic successes focusing on the fundamental bond between parents and children, Lisa Azuelos had confided her wounds concerning her own childhood to the journalists of the magazine. Gala in 2014. Daughter of Judas Azuelos – a Moroccan Jew close to politician Ben Barka who was one of the main socialist opponents of King Hassan II – and actress Marie Laforêt, Lisa has very rarely spent tenderness and affection with his parents.
Absent and often inaccessible for their little girl, Judas Azuelos and Marie Laforêt have thus left a huge scar in the heart of the director who still does not seem to be cured of this lack. “I remember skimmed TV shows with her, but no outings to kindergarten (…) It’s like I grew up an orphan of living parents“explained the director of the films LOL and An encounter adding that her parents had only been together for two years. “She only lived two years with my father (…) Must say that his name was Judas, so what future could he have with a Mary?” she revealed bitterly.
I was careful not to be beaten up
A few years later in 2019, the director of the film How beautiful you are! had come back to her childhood with journalists from the Parisian. “I hadn’t had so many as a child. I grew up in dorms, boarding houses. I was on the alert, protecting my little brother from violence when things were going very badly. And I was careful that they didn’t beat me up either. I didn’t have a safe space to be a little blue fairy in a princess dress. The only way to fix it was to walk the path again with my own children.” she confided.
Mom of Carmen, Illan and Thaïs (fruit of her union with the director Patrick Alessandrin whom she divorced after eleven years of marriage), the director of the film I Love America was able to mend her own flaws by covering them with the love she never received as a youngster. “I made myself people that I was sure would love me“, she explained.