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Paris, 1896. Sarah Bernhardt is at the height of her fame. An icon of his time and the first world star, the actor is also in love, free and modern, defying convention. Meet the woman behind the legend.
Sandrine Kiberlen is Sarah Bernhardt! This Wednesday, December 18, the actor stars in a feature film titled Sarah Bernhardt, divine. The film, directed by Guillaume Niclou and written by Nathalie Letroit, focuses on 30 years of the artist’s life.
“Like everyone else, I think I had an idea Pretty vague about who Sarah Bernhardt was. People told me that “he is the first world star”, “a holy monster”, that “people were getting lost in his path” when he played. He had a kind of absolute grandeur…” Sandrine Kiberlen explains.
Crazy and boundless energy
“But then, together with Guillaume Niclous, we went to see an exhibition dedicated to him in Paris. And there I realized the stature of an artist, but also of a devoted woman who was, a kind of incredible free woman.
When I got the script, I really liked the way Natalie Leitro Repeated his life without making a biography. We are not talking about his childhood. It’s really a woman of 30 years, already successful, already what characterizes her, that is, this crazy energy, where everyone follows her, where she doesn’t care what they say about you. It has no boundaries except its own…“
Sandrine Kiberlen has already played another celebrity from the art world
Sandrine Kiberlen Once again, he lends his qualities to famous people from the art world. In the film Violette, released 10 years ago, directed by Martin Provost, she slipped into the costume of the author Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuelle Deveau as Violet Leduc.
Sarah Bernhardt’s cast, The Divine also consists of Laurent Lafitte as Lucien Guitry, Amira Casar (Louise Abema, artist and Sarah Bernhardt’s best friend), Pauline Etienne, Laurent Stocker and Sébastien Poudreau, both French. Comedy.
Sarah Bernhardt, The Divine hits theaters this Wednesday, December 18th.
Comments collected at the 2024 Angoulême Francophonie Film Festival
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