Angelina Woreth, let youth take its place – Libération

Striking in the adaptation of “Their Children After Them”, the young actress with an assertive temperament intends to trace her path in the cinema.

On July 8, 1998, the same feverish jubilation took hold of France. From Vesoul to Vierzon, via Montauban, thousands of Footix crowd in bars or in front of their cathode ray tube TVs, to see the Blues beat Croatia and qualify for the final of the Football World Cup. The hysteria which then spread to the small towns of the deindustrialized Moselle valley of the Fensch was the acme of Their Children after themnovel-fresco by Nicolas Mathieu, Goncourt Prize 2018. From the double of Thuram, Aimé Jacquet or the jumping celebrations to the sound of Gloria Gaynor, Angelina Woreth has experienced nothing. And for good reason: she was born two years to the day after this match. The young woman has known nothing of the oxide of blast furnaces, of dying provincial boredom studded with desires for elsewhere, or of Walkmans either. Which does not prevent her from blending in wonderfully with the worn Doc Martens of Steph, the girl who capsizes the hero in the pages of the Vosges writer as in their adaptation by the Boukherma brothers, in theaters these days . “It’s a universal subject. The birth of desire, of love, of dreams… All of this could exist in any city and any era,” she observes. Adding, piercing gaze coated with jeweled eyebrows: “It touched me. Deeply. Everything spoke to me