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The actress-director presents her 8th feature film, Libre with Lucas Bravo in the role of the robber Bruno Sulak. In the show “Conversations”, she talks about her inspirations, her journey and her connection to filmmaking.
Guest on the show “Conversations”, Mélanie Laurent looks back on the genesis and filming of her 8th feature film as a director. La Parisienne releases the film on Prime Video Libre on the true story of the robber Bruno Sulak, played by Lucas Bravo. She tells Joseph Ghosn, deputy editorial director of Madame Figaro, having wanted to return to this astonishing destiny after reading the book Watery by Philippe Jaenada. She had never heard of this gentleman robber who hit the headlines in the 1980s: “He was at the heart of the media. But the real question, almost societal, that I ask myself when I start wanting to make this film is: “Why does history forget those who didn't kill anyone? Why in France do we idolize our executioners and our mafiosi?”
“Make the heist film as feminine as possible”
The actress won a Cesar for her role in I'm fine, don't worry also explains that he wanted to give more space to women to break away from the clichés of this cinematic genre: “In fact, the heist film (…) was really a pretext to tell this magnificent love story and the place of this woman in his life. And to complete by explaining that she appreciated “making the heist film as feminine as possible”.
She also reveals to us a photo taken with Lou de Laagence and Joséphine Japy taken on the set of her first film Breathe. The opportunity to return to his relationship with filmmaking: “I could tell my life story based on the films I make.” Multiplying projects as an actress and director, she revealed that she was starring in Joséphine Japy's first film, finished shooting a series with Benoît Magimel, wrote a series and finished the first version of her next film as a director… Enough to keep us waiting.
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