An actor whose life was marked by a movie: Here’s the trailer for this much-anticipated biopic

Discover the trailer of the biography dedicated to the actress Maria Schneider, simply called Maria.

Maria is no longer a child and not yet an adult when she ignites the sultry film that has become a cult: Last Tango in Paris. He quickly gained fame and became a cult actor, prepared for neither fame nor scandal.

Maria Schneider is played by Annamaria Bartholomew (lead in Audrey Divan’s The Event and recently seen in Bruno Dumont’s Empire). Matt Dillon plays Marlon Brando. The cast also includes Ivan Attal (as Daniel Gelin) and Marie Gillen (as Maria Schneider’s mother).

The film is directed by Jessica Palud. This is his second feature film, following Revenir with Adele Exarchopoulos and Niels Schneider, which was released in early 2020.

This is an adaptation of the story Your Name Was Maria Schneider. This book, published by Grasset in 2018, is by Vanessa Schneider, who is a senior reporter at Le Monde, a novelist and none other than the cousin of the actor who revealed Le Dernier tango à Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci (Trailer above. ), a shocking role that he held in spite of himself.

Discover Maria Schneider

The book was not a sulphurous history of the actor’s life and suffering career, but a tribute to this cousin and this actor, whose life should not be reduced to a film, a role and sometimes even a stage. “I often think you don’t like to say that, Maria. You didn’t want me to talk about your mother, your father, drugs, your brothers. That’s why I’ll delete what I wrote. Then I start again. Because to talk about yourself without talking about mom, dad, drugs, or tango is to stop talking about yourself.”

Your name was Maria Schneider, through the prism of intimacy and the personal story of its author, invites us to discover Maria Schneider, with her dark sides, her suffering, but also to remember that she was not a woman of one shocking scene, but an actress who will remain distinguished by film for the rest of her life, rested “I always relate to that. I have Tango with me everywhere, Basta!“.

By discussing this topic, this testimony ties into the #MeToo theme we talked about in the podcast here:

After Le Consentement and its more than 600,000 admissions recorded in France, can this film get people talking, especially young people?

Maria will premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on June 19.