“Adele? But this actress is a Ferrari! » The sentence is signed Gilles Lellouche. Interviewed last May during the Cannes Film Festival, where his film phew love was in competition, the director, eyes raised to the sky and hands in prayer, was full of praise for his actress.
In this baroque, sentimental, naive and violent film, a true ode to the 1980s and its music, Adèle Exarchopoulos proves, if necessary, the extent of her talent. The star of The life of Adèle, Palme d’Or at 19, was not strong. She has even established herself in the constellation of new stars of French cinema. A girl of her time entered through the front door with this story of female homosexuality shot by a director, Abdellatif Kechiche, whose methods have since been contested.
“I put myself in my character’s place”
Today, she is 30 years old and we meet her in a Parisian hotel. From the outset, we are…