Today at 11:00 – by
Simon Gonzalez
This Monday June 24 at 9:10 p.m., France 3 broadcasts the film Rose. Françoise Fabian plays a 78-year-old woman who loses the husband she loved. She will gradually change her life in front of her children, causing upheaval within the family. The director, Aurélie Saada, drew on her personal history to write this touching and sensitive film.
This Monday June 24 at 9:10 p.m., France 3 broadcasts a new film, Rose. Françoise Fabian plays here Rose, 78 years old, who has just lost her husband whom she loved so much. As her pain and mourning take a major place in her life, Rose decides to change her state of mind. In front of her children who cannot believe it, the widow discovers a new way of living her life with a power of seduction hitherto buried by her marital duty. Throughout the film, the viewer discovers the journey of a lifestyle of a woman who is beginning to be old and who does not let herself be sucked in by the passing of time. “Sexuality among older people is an almost shameful subject, in life as in the cinema. However, I know young people who would ask nothing better than to have stories with me.” declared Françoise Fabian, to define her character.
Rose: Director Aurélie Saada drew on her personal history
Co-written and directed by Aurélie Saada, Rose is above all intended to be a touching and sensitive film about the setbacks of a 78-year-old woman. The director, during an interview, detailed the genesis of the writing of her film with her personal story as a backdrop. “This film, I believe that I wrote and constructed it with real pieces of intimacy from my life. It is my story in its contours, in its linings, in its reverses. These are extremely familiar scents“, she explained at first at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival in August 2021. “Before being a woman or a wife, she is a human being who has an intimate revolution at a time when she no longer thought she could have one. She is what she never imagined she could be.” she added.
Aurélie Saada: “I love people who slip intimate things into their work”
To make this film full of emotion, Aurélie Saada drew on her personal story to give the viewer a solid reality. The director therefore created a real family on the film set and mixed some of her close friends with professional actors during the meal scenes, according to Allocinated. “I love the truth, the reality, specifies the director. I love people who slip intimate things into their work and don’t protect themselves. Françoise gave this. But everyone does. It was intimate and sensitive. I needed that and they felt it”, she explained.
