Alexandra Lamy: “Culture saves time for debate”

Louise Violet, a film by Eric Besnard. With Alexandra Lamy, Grégory Gadebois

“I wanted to know the big story before working on the little story of this woman. She doesn't come from nowhere, she's a communard who was on the barricades, what we called the “sharers”; and she finds herself face to face with bourgeois people, owners.”

“I have a few things in common with her: she arrives, she is a woman, she is a communard, she is suitable for marriage, she is the foreigner and she is confronted with images that are stuck to her all the time. continuation, like when I arrived in Paris. You must not give up, I am pugnacious.”

A facilitating artist

Alexandra Lamy defines herself as an “artivist”: “culture allows us to save time. When we see a film, it's easier to talk about the subjects. For example in my film Touchées, on the reconstruction of women who have suffered violence, when we bring it into middle and high schools, this support is a facilitator for debating with young people.

There are resonances with the situation today in France in National Education: on teachers' salaries for example. The State did everything for us to go to school and it is the State which is removing teachers today! Jobs are going to be eliminated, it’s a disaster. I pity the teachers!