Invited in A Sunday in the countryside this Sunday on France 2, Sandrine Bonnaire looked back on her film debut. She tells how her sister Lydie helped her despite herself to star in a Maurice Pialat film.
Sandrine Bonnaire took her first steps in the cinema in 1983, at the age of 16, In To Our Loves by Maurice Pialat. She plays the role of Suzanne, a teenager in search of emancipation and rebellion, a complex character which propels her to the forefront. His performance, powerful and natural, earned him the César for Most Promising Actress in 1984.
French cinema quickly recognized the talent of Sandrine Bonnaire. In 1985, she played the role of a young homeless woman in Without roof or law by Agnès Varda, which earned her the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival. In addition to her talent as an actress, Sandrine Bonnaire has also established herself as a director, notably with the documentary Her name is Sabine (2007)a personal and moving film dedicated to his autistic sister, Sabine. This documentary also won an award at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes,
The push from her sister Lydie
In the show A Sunday in the countryside This November 10, Frédéric Lopez asked Sandrine Bonnaire to tell the story of her beginnings in cinema. It was one of his sisters who gave him the helping hand of destiny to launch his career: “It's my sister Lydie who finds an ad in the France Soir newspaper who responds to this ad and sends a photo of herself. There are ink stains on her face, but we can still see her relatively. And luckily, we had the phone at that time. As it was difficult to make ends meet, sometimes the phone was cut off because the parents had not paid.” says the actress. She continues : “And the phone, one day, rings. And I don't know why, I find myself all alone at home. And they tell me, it's the production, we would like to see Lydie Bonnaire. She wasn't there , she was in the south of France I hang up and I have another sister who calls me and Corinne says to me, give me the number, I would like to act as a backup. Come with me, I don't want to go alone.”
Arriving there, the two sisters meet the director and it is at this moment that his destiny will change: “We see Pialat who I don't know. I don't know any Maurice Pialat films at all and he makes us do an improvisation scene.” She will get the role to play in To our Loves. The host decides to play the extract from this famous scene and asks the actress what she feels when she sees the images of this 15-year-old girl: “She touches me, there is a rebellious side that Pialat liked. I wasn't afraid of anything.” This time, chance did things well.
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