At the movies: Lor Kalam as you’ve never seen him before in my inseparable

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Mona lives with her thirty-year-old son, Joel, who is “late.” He works in a specialized facility, ESAT, and is passionately in love with his colleague Okani, who also has a disability. Although Mona knows nothing about this relationship, she learns that Ocean is pregnant. The close relationship between mother and child is decreasing.

At the end of the year, Lor Kalam is and will be very much to the delight of the audience. A faithful friend of the series on the platform of Max, for the film Arte Je ne me sera plus faire, directed by Gustav Kervern and awaiting the Coen brother-style thriller by Frank Dubosque (Un Ours dans le Jura, in theaters January 1), the actor shared the poster of Mon Inséparable this Wednesday: A very moving drama in which she plays the mother of a disabled young man, Joel (whose The role is played by the excellent Charles Pechia Galeto).

This film, selected at the Venice Film Festival (the festival where Laure Callami won an award for A plein temps), deals with great subtlety and precision with powerful issues rarely addressed in cinema. My integral is particularly interested in the issue of disability, through a unique prism. Treating disability through the parent-child relationship, the bond we build.

“Disability creates an object to talk about the complexity of the parent-child relationship. The vulnerability of a disabled child radicalizes his parents’ fears, complicates separation, creates resentment, guilt on both sides, powerful sources of fiction that are more or less widespread in all families. relationships” explains director Anne-Sophie Bailey in the press kit.

Give real space, artistically, to “different” characters

“A character with a disability does not mean that the subject is necessarily disabled; And it’s about giving real space, artistically, to “different” characters, to put them at the center of stories that go beyond illness, slowness, or obstacle.“

The film features three actors, all outstanding: Laure Kalam, who shows a very emotional side, but also two young actors, both with disabilities: Charles Peccia Galletto and Julie Frogger, disabled themselves…

“There was no question of imitating and playing the handicapDirector Anne-Sophie Bailey explains. Both Charles and Julie have something in common with the characters, but are not their characters. (…) No one can be reduced to disability: not all people in this situation think about themselves in the same way, sometimes it is extremely delicate to distinguish what is disability and personality..”

He continues: “For my part, I wanted to work to know what disorders my characters were suffering from and bring them to Charles and Julie, but never make a medical diagnosis in the film. This is an overlap I did not want to have.“

Reality is far more powerful than anything we can imagine

For My Inséparable, the director did a lot of documentary work, in particular spending time at the social institution for assistance through work (ESAT) in Ménilmontagne, Paris. “Reality is much stronger than anything we can imagine… In this Ménilmontant center, I met a young man with Down syndrome who dressed incredibly. I would take this, I would be criticized if I added more…“

Anne-Sophie Bailey’s Two Inseparables, starring Laure Callam, Charles Peccia Galletto and Julie Frogger, hits theaters this Wednesday.