Revisiting Paris with Virgin Air: Which International Star Could Star in the Movie?

After casting Eva Green in the previous film Proxima, director Alyssa Winokur plans to call on another English-speaking actress for Revoir Paris, which opens in theaters Wednesday.

The film, which was aired by Virgin, knew previous versions with non-French-speaking characters. The project was delayed due to the Covid crisis, the script then evolved into a French character.

Alisa Vinokur and the film’s screenwriter told us more in an interview at the Cannes Film Festival:It was part of the writing process for the film. At first, – because things are easier for me further away – I wrote the film for Nicole Kidman for the first time. Then there was Covid and the film was not made.”

For reference, Nicole Kidman has had the opportunity in the past to shoot for a French filmmaker, in this case Olivia Dahan, for the English-language film Grace.

Alisa Vinokur continues:But I think it was a writing move because it made it into the movie that Mia’s character is no stranger. In the first versions, the character came from America and returned to Paris. But suddenly I realized that he was returning to Paris from obscurity. He is not a stranger to the feeling of the country, he is a stranger to his city. To me he is a stranger to himself. There is depersonalization, it is no longer in the body“, Alisa Vinokur explained to our microphone.

After this writing work, the director chose Virgin Efira for the main role of Revoir Paris. “He is an actor that I have always been very proud of.Eh, he tells us. I think it shows some kind of power. We see that he is a brave man who fights, that he is not complacent in suffering. It was something very important to me that it was not a sad film, but about people who have life energy, like people who were close to death: they are people who are trying to move forward. Virgin broadcast it.”

The actor was very involved: Together we created this character of a free woman who is on this obsessive quest. It’s also a form of performance for Virginia to be able to find this particular state of post-trauma that makes you a stranger to your own body. This is not so. Easy to play, as if watching his memory a bit. What I stand for in this film is also this traumatic memory. This is the phenomenon of flashbacks in psychiatry, which is different from the movies. Movie flashbacks are memories. This is an involuntary recurrent memory. It is a psychic intrusion of images and sounds produced through reminiscence sounds. The sounds can be enough to bring an entire scene to life. We worked hard on her look. I was very lucky to work with him. , and also Benoit Magimel. They are actors who evoke a lot of sympathy.”.

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Virgin Efira’s character travels on a motorcycle, which is symbolic for the scriptwriter and director: “For me, she is a character of a liberated woman, a strong woman. There was an idea that he was wandering around Paris on his motorcycle, in limbo. The one who isn’t really there, not in her memories, not in the real world…somewhere else. All the way through the movie, he is the one who returns to the world of the living“.

Revoir Paris Square: In Paris, Mia is attacked in a brasserie. Three months later, when she has still not managed to recover the course of her life and only remembers the events, Mia decides to explore her memory to find a way to life. Possible happiness.

The movie is currently in theaters.