From writing to screen
By discovering The DaronneGrand Prix for detective literature 2017, written by the former criminal lawyer Hannelore Cayre, Jean-Paul Salome immediately think of Isabelle Huppert to play the heroine, a character as colorful as she is improbable. Either Patience Portfoliotranslator for the Paris drug brigade, dragging the devil by the tail, who becomes, without having premeditated it, a heavy drug dealer in the Barbès district!
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Alignment of the planets
Incredible but true, when he contacted the actress, she replied that she had just read the book, which she threw herself into after hearing its author on France Culture: she loved it. She said to herself, “ totally projected into this incredible story”. And to specify: “ La Daronne would have pleased Claude Chabrol (they made seven films together, editor’s note)there are all the ingredients of a satire, but we never lose a form of humanism… I felt that I had an appointment with this character! » All that remained was to fit the filming into the ministerial agenda of the woman who collects projects on stage and in the cinema. And, at his request, add “ a little more heroin craziness “. On screen, Prudence has it in spades, and that’s precisely what makes the price of this detective comedy that the star carries on his shoulders.
Dealer but not too much
“I really liked this novel, especially its tone, its mix of comedy and thriller. And I saw in it the possibility of a beautiful portrait of a woman », says the director. About Prudence, whose ardent advocate she is, Huppert explain : ” She is a woman who suffered a brutal loss. Alone, she takes care of everything, her daughters, her mother. When this unexpected windfall presents itself, she throws herself into the adventure without asking too many questions. She is amoral almost without knowing it… More…
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