Florence Seyvos, bailiff and closed session – Release

Florence Seyvos, bailiff and closed session – Release
Florence Seyvos, bailiff and closed session – Release

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Two sisters under the rule of a stepfather in “A Magnificent Loser”.

The novelist Florence Seyvos translates her intelligence of children into novel after novel. She records their intuitions, their insight, the fear and the silences that constitute them: “We didn’t talk about the fact that we felt like we were living with a crazy person.” To discuss it would have been a double punishment. Anna and Irene laugh, observe, negotiate the turns. In the 1980s, these sisters lived on and off for six years with their mother's second husband. He's the crazy one; Jacques. A magnificent loserthrough Anna, who recounts her memories forty years later, paints a portrait of this man which preserves his faults and his great charm. The painting functions like a constellation: it illuminates the mother of the girls, who has great courage; the girls' father, who remains very discreet, and the girls themselves, supportive, mature, reasonable and funny.

Jacques is an entrepreneur trying to do business in Ivory Coast with agricultural machinery. His business is not working. He blames his failures on the economic situation when they seem to result from his personality, flamboyant and irresponsible. Jacques is anchored in the 1970s and 1980s. On screen he could have the features of Jean-Paul Belmondo, when the actor's overplayed cheerfulness hides a problem and lies. Anna's mother and


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