Sabine Azéma is part of the happy comedy cast Crazy Raid, by and with Dany Boon and broadcast on TMC on November 2, 2022. One more performance in the long career of the talented 73-year-old actress, which was however marked by a long exceptional collaboration, that with the immense Alain Resnais. Heroine of many of his feature films, she was also the one who shared his life. He left us in 2014, plunging into grief the woman of his life who managed to transform his absence into an unalterable legacy.
The meeting of Sabine Azéma with Alain Resnais will upset the course of the actress and her life quite simply. life is a novel (1982) marks the birth of the couple, a multiple and playful film which consists of three inseparable stories from each other. Alain Resnais and the actress married in 1998 and they collaborated together in his last five feature films, like many actors who are part of the Resnais “family”: Not on the mouth, Hearts, Wild Herbs – for which he received an exceptional prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 -, You have not seen anything yet and the ultimate feature film, Love, drink and sing.
For Le FigaroSabine Azéma returned to her husband’s way of working: “He always tries to understand everything, without prejudice, with great respect for people but also for objects. He moves the elements of life to surprise, to find different arrangements. And always with such kindness.” For the promotion of You have not seen anything yet, she entrusted to The Weekly : “Of course he’s a man of a certain age (…) While filming, I thought a lot about Love to death, where I was going to join the man I love in death. There, Orpheus joins me. It may be poetry, but it makes us accept the idea of death, so ugly and so brutal for us, it gives hope.“
Three years after her death in 2014, Sabine Azéma had addressed the pain of losing the man of her life in the pages of Gala magazine: “When you’ve been through a lot of bereavements, you realize – I already knew this, but it’s even more significant – how precious the present is. So let’s enjoy. Let’s train others.”