Tonight on TV: It’s the first movie and everyone agreed

How did the life of Lydia, a midwife who is very involved in her work, fail? Her breakup, her best friend Salome’s pregnancy or meeting Milos, a possible new love? Lydia gets trapped in a spiral of lies and their lives are turned upside down…

That pitch is the excellent Le Rapissement, a drama of great precision, starring the fascinating Hafsia Hertz, the actress’ best film according to AlloCiné viewers.

Coming to theaters in 2023, this charming, sophisticated work of great sophistication and great craftsmanship, director Iris Kaltenbeck, for his debut behind the camera, got the idea when he came across a two-sentence news story in the newspapers: A young woman. Borrows her best friend’s son and makes the man believe she is his mother.

“That’s when the idea came to me to tell a friendship rebellion and a love story around the same lie.”he recalls. “From my past experience in the courts, I have come to believe that the news often tells us about the tension in society at a given time. We find there, on an intimate scale, major political questions.”

“We talk a lot about what having a baby does to a couple, but less about what it does to a friendship.”

What did you complain about? Iris Kaltenbeck In this story there is a friendship that we feel between these two women. “I experienced this strange disconnect myself when a very close friend became a mother at a time when I didn’t feel concerned about it myself.”he notes.

“We talk a lot about what having a baby does to a couple, but less about what it does to a friendship.”

“Another question raised by this story is the place of pretense in the birth of a love story.”concludes Iris Kaltenbeck. “Even if the lies in this story are huge, I had a feeling it could speak to a lot of people. Almost all of us have at some point distorted reality to suit or fit an image we believe is more desirable. Of ourselves.”

Tonight on Canal+ at 21:10.

Excerpt from “Rapture”: