“The Thieving Magpie”, the 24th film by Robert Guédiguian, will be released in theaters on January 29. The film was presented in preview in Marseille in the presence of the Marseille director and the actor Gérard Meylan.
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For “La Pie voleuse”, his 24th feature film, Robert Guédiguian returns to l’Estaque, a district of Marseille, where he grew up with Gérard Meylan. “We filmed within a radius of 500 meters around the Estaque Plage church, it’s neighborhood cinema“, specifies the Marseille director, present at the preview presentation of the film in Marseille.
The thief magpie is Maria (Ariane Ascaride), in her sixties, who works as a home help and begins to steal money from the elderly people she takes care of. Gérard Meylan plays the husband, addicted to gambling.
“I tried to turn people we know, who live around us into heroes“, summarizes Robert Guédiguian. “They all have something heroic.“
-In the Guédiguian troupe, there is Jean-Claude Daroussin. As usual, the filmmaker conveys a political and social message in this popular cinema that he loves, around universal themes, such as love and family, and endearing characters.
“Popular cinema, the cinema that I love the most, is cinema that tells stories. And to tell stories, there have to be characters. And for there to be credible characters, you need very good actors who embody these very, very well. characters there“, he emphasizes.
“There, we enter what he calls a tale of l’Estaque: fairly positive characters“, deciphers Gérard Meylan, “except maybe the one I play“. “This film, which seems innocuous because it tells simple stories, has a very significant depth and it is perhaps on second reading that we can see it.“
The film will be released in theaters on Wednesday January 29.
(Article written with Arnaud Delayre, journalist at France 3 Provence-Alpes.)
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