Yesterday at 6:30 p.m. – by Thomas Fourcroy
On Friday October 4 at 9:05 p.m., France 2 broadcasts I find you very beautiful. A film marked by the great performance of Michel Blanc, then sharing the poster with the Romanian Medeea Marinescu. Behind a performance, again, memorable.
This Friday, October 4, France 2 is shaking up its programs to pay tribute to Michel Blanc, who died at just 72 years old. I find you very beautifulsigned Isabelle Mergault, is broadcast at 9:05 p.m. A real success, telling the story of a widowed farmer meeting a young woman from Romania… A key character played by a certain Medeea Marinescu. 18 years after the film’s release, what has become of her?
Medeea Marinescu, avowed Francophile
It was in Bucharest, on May 27, 1974, that Medeea Marinescu was born. Encouraged by film-loving parents, it was literally in front of the cameras that the artist grew up. Thus, Mercea Moldovan will film it from 3 years old in Duckling’s Winter (1977), before she made her mark in a multitude of films. Crowned best actress at the age of 11 by the Roman Cinema Association, she will become one of the stars of filmmaker Elisabeta Bostan. Never stopping touring, Medeea also joined the prestigious National Theater of Bucharest at the dawn of the 2000s. The opportunity to play the classics of Goldoni or Chekhov and then try his luck in France. Without speaking the language of Molière, she will make a series of feature films and participate in their Romanian castings. It is ultimately with I find you very beautiful (2006) that it will experience real success in France. giving givingonce again under the direction of Isabelle Mergault (2010) will make her last film with us, opposite Daniel Auteuil. Still at the top of the bill in Romania, she will then continue to shine on the big and small screens. The theater will not leave her either, with tours in Romania and France. Married to cinematographer George Dăscălescu and mother of two children, Luca and Filip, who attended the French school Ana de Noailles in Bucharest, Medeea Marinescu has a precious link with our country, reinforced by her decoration as Knight of the order French National Merit, received in 2017.
Medeea Marinescu, marked by the delicacy of Michel Blanc
Interviewed in 2017 by the site Capital lettersMedeea Marinescu had delicate words towards Michel Blanc, “one of the most special actors” that she had the opportunity to meet: “I had started to mumble a few words in French, mainly to cope with the filming, while maintaining the shyness of a beginner fearing grammatical mistakes. In any case, Michel is not a talker. He is rather introverted, d ‘an immense delicacy, one of the most subtle observers I have had the chance to meet (…) Michel delicately observed everything that happened during the filming. The influence of his very fine observations was found in. the scenes that we were playing he showed a particular demand for details, an attitude that I had felt and that he transmitted to me especially in his collaboration with me, beyond the words that I, the granddaughter of. the East, controlled so little.”
