In “A Woman of Our Time” by Jean-Paul Siveyrac, Sophie Marceau takes on the role of an unfaithful wife who decides to take revenge.
Five years after Mes Provinciales, Jean-Paul Civeirac stages his new film Une femme de notre temps. At the crossroads of genres, between drama and thriller, the story tells about Julian, a police commissioner who discovers his husband’s infidelity. A series of tragic events forces the broken heroine to commit the irreparable.
For this role of a lonely woman, the film director turns to Sophie Marceau. “I wrote the script without thinking about the actress, and only when the project went into production did I think about Sophie.Jean-Paul Civeirac admits during a round table with the actor. I knew that she could move this character, that she was going to bring warmth to it.“
Sophie Marceau has portrayed dark and serious characters several times throughout her career, most notably under the direction of Andrzej Żulawski. In A Woman of Our Time, she lends her qualities to the heroine who takes her life into her own hands before she sees her destiny elude her. A bit of a talking role, but one that allows him to express a lot. “The film has a different language, an inner language, more intimate“, he specifies.
Sophie Marceau in “A Woman of Our Time”.
He continues: “When Juliana loses the pillars of her life, it’s like a grain of sand entering the machine to stop everything.” A woman of our time It shows how this character, under constant tension, drowns in madness. A madness that reaches its apotheosis in the last part, where the desire for revenge, stronger than anything else, takes over.
Interview by Thomas Desroches, Angoulême, August 2022.
A Woman of Our Time, in theaters October 5.
Source: allocine
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