Sophie Marceau: 3 Things You Need to Know About A Woman of Our Time, a dark melodrama

A dark melodrama

The woman of our time was born out of desire Jean Paul Civeirac to deal with a character who “would have a straight line of conduct, then a turning point, and finally, access to a deeper inner truth that could lead to a new ascent.” He began writing the film with no theoretical intent to compare it to the previous films, with an elaborate plot idea driven by this character.

However, he admits, “I realized that I would inevitably come across films or genres from the history of cinema. If it is difficult to limit Une femme de notre temps to a specific genre, we can say that it is not. Unusual and not a thriller, and that it seems to borrow certain features from black melodrama, which create an obvious layer of the plot.

The hero of the tragedy

Featuring a police superintendent heroine who deviates from the law driven by irresistible passions, Jean Paul Civeirac He wanted to go beyond the frames of the adulterous melodrama and the desolate wife. Juliana becomes the heroine of a kind of tragedy: “She feels invested with a mission that goes beyond herself, where there is something that seems to be fulfilled by destiny.” The fact that he wields an archery echoes mythological figures and marks him as “time immemorial in tragedy or fable.”

Sophie Marceau

Jean Paul Civeirac He is more used to working with young, new or lesser-known actors. This is the first time he is directing a famous actor like Sophie Marceau. He didn’t have it in mind when writing, but he thought about it when casting.

The actor accepted the project after reading the script: “I can say that he is not only a wonderful actor who knows how to control his acting perfectly, but also has something more and more important for me: a kind of abandon, as if he was offering something to himself in the shots in which it seems He throws himself without thinking about what effect it should have. So it always remains a bit surprising and of course very emotional.”