During the 36th edition of Cabourg Film Festival, from June 15 to 19, 2022, the public voted for their favorite film. And it’s the film by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller, Maria dreams, who won the public’s grand prize.
The film is released in theaters on Wednesday, September 28 and it should win the support of the spectators. Karin Viard embodies Maria, a housekeeper who will gradually free herself, free herself from the prejudices of her condition thanks in particular to her meeting with Hubert, played by Gregory Gadebois. The decor of the School of Fine Arts brings an atmosphere that is both sparkling, light, full of inventions and encounters.
maria dream is a film full of tenderness, poetry but also smiles and laughter. This kind of film which reconciles you with the cinemas, if need be.
Summary: Maria is a cleaning lady. Married for 25 years, reserved, shy and clumsy, she never leaves her flowery notebook in which she writes poems in secret. When she is assigned to the École des Beaux-Arts, she meets Hubert, the school’s whimsical guardian, and discovers a fascinating place where freedom, creativity and daring reign…
In this new world, Maria, who has always been devoted and discreet, will she finally allow herself to be invaded by life?