It’s one of the cinema events of the year. This Wednesday, October 16, Phew Love released in French cinemas. A film that tells a love story between two people who are separated by everything but who cannot move away.
There is, on the one hand, Jackie, who grew up without her mother, who died in an accident, but who maintains a close relationship with her father, trying to take on all the roles in the household. “But I think no one replaces a motherwho is someone who is quite cerebral, very lucid, and who has a bit of this gift from the heart to see what is beautiful in people”, explains Adèle Exarchopoulos, guest of Focus Sunday.
On the other side, there is Clotaire, coming from a different social background. Her father teaches her not to get attached because “everything passes and everything ends up becoming ugly,” continues the actress. A love story is then born between the two characters, who must separate when the man is sentenced to ten years in prison. “For me, Jackie got a little lost, has a series of odd jobs, something has been destroyed about her. He comes out of ten years in prison with an obsession, that of finding her, after having learned to love her better, the meaning and the weight of the best”, summarizes Adèle Exarchopoulos.
A definition of love that changes over time
This film, which shakes up the way we look at love, is unconventional and offers a more radical vision of love, a harder and yet passionate vision. “It’s a pure love because it transforms,” explains the actress, who says she did not want to “describe and portray a toxic love to which you become attached and where you end up accepting things that don’t suit you. not”.
The release of the film is therefore an opportunity to questioning love, whether it is unconditional or not. Adèle Exarchopoulos also tried it. “I know that there are many couples who are comfortable and in reason […] and it’s true that I’m not really capable of being in a relationship where it’s comfortable,” she admits.
But thanks to this film, the actress realizes that his definition of love has changed through the years. Asked what was the craziest act she had done for love, Adèle Exarchopoulos answered not “taking a plane” or “things that we all did out of impulse”. From now on, “I tell myself that the beautiful things we do for love are also banal things, but more profound and complicated,” she explains. “Accepting someone else’s child, living with in-laws, things which are also quite sublime sacrifices,” she summarized.
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