Nora, a professional housewife in her fifties, looks after her small family in a town in the northern districts of Marseille. After a long period of unemployment, one evening of bad inspiration, his eldest son Ellis became involved in the robbery of a gas station. Held in custody for several months, he awaits his trial with a mixture of hope and trepidation. Nora is doing her best to make this wait as unbearable as possible…
The drama Bonne Mère, released in cinemas in 2021, will surprise you. For her second feature film, You Deserve Love, Hafsia Herzi has chosen to portray a brave mother, a story the director has always wanted to write and which she started working on almost fifteen years ago.
“I grew up alone with my mother who was a housewife, I lost my father very young.”entrusts Hapsia Hertz. “I am very impressed with this woman who, when we woke up in the morning, everything was already prepared for us, before I went to work I wanted to make a film about her and these women who completely forget themselves about their children, whatever their background.”
shining good motherA moving and generous portrait of a mother, it’s an elegant, delicate and highly engaging film that screams truth, which is also Marcel’s declaration of love, never captured so well as here. Hapsia Hertz Raised in the Les Oliviers area, in a building opposite the one in which good mother turned into “This city in the northern regions has always inspired me, I wanted to immortalize these towers before they are destroyed one day, to show the atmosphere reigning there, to hear its sounds.he declares.
“He’s doing tests and it’s magic”
Hapsia Hertz He found Halimah Benhammed, who plays Nora’s famous mother in the film, when she was cast as Nora’s daughter. Sabrina Benhamed, one of the young women who came to the hearing, was accompanied by her mother, a woman in her fifties.
“We got to know each other and I suggest that we audition for the role of Nora”remember Hapsia Hertz. “She immediately refuses, she laughs. She doesn’t feel like an actress. I don’t insist. I wait and ask again. Another refusal. She’s a very shy lady. Finally I manage to convince her. She does tests and there, it’s magic. Her look convinced me.
Tonight at 22:45 on Arte.
A film about a “brave mother” who fights every day
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