Diane Kurys, an autobiographical cinema
For his third feature film, after Mint diabolo AND Molotovsays Diane Kurys Lightning a story of emancipation and desire for autonomy of two women in the 1950s. Lightning was then a commercial and critical success in 1983, with more than 1.6 million viewers in French cinemas.
The cast’s collective performance was praised, and it was also a success overseas with a nomination forOscar for best foreign language film in 1984. In the same year, at the César, he was nominated 4 times in the categories Best film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress for Miou-Miou e Best Supporting Actor for Guy Marchand.
Lyon, 1952. Léna (Isabelle Huppert) misses her husband, who was married without love during the war. She meets Madeleine (Miou-Miou), an emancipated young woman, who can no longer stand her life with her husband. The two become inseparable friends and decide to leave everything to open a boutique in Paris.
As it happened for Mint diabolo and, to a lesser extent, also for Molotov Cocktail, Diane Kurys draws from one’s own life to make his cinema. With Lightningis inspired by the meeting of his father Michel and his mother Léna in 1942, both Russian Jewish emigrants, in the Rivesaltes internment camp. The film recounts, ten years later, the meeting between Léna and Madeleine, two women unhappy in their relationship: Diane Kurys’ parents separated in 1954.
Thirty years later, Diane Kurys revisits her family’s story in a new film, For a womancontinuing to mix the true and the falsethis time with Benoît Magimel and Mélanie Thierry as his parents.
Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou in an electric love story
In 1983, Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou were among the most sought-after and acclaimed young French actresses. They have already shared the poster of the same cult film The Valseuses in 1974, and then meet again nine years later Lightning. Both very inspired, they carry this film forward with a relationship on which Diane Kurys does not shed full light. Lesbian love or very strong friendshiptheir story is that of the emancipation of the 1950s marked by the conservatism of relationships.
The film’s respective husbands, Jean-Pierre Bacri as Miou-Miou and Guy Marchand as Isabelle Huppert, also developed roles, and Diane Kurys writes them with a kind of tenderness and also gives their point of view about the relationship between Léna and Madeleine. The direction of the actors is generally excellent, which is why Guy Marchand and Miou-Miou were nominated for the 1984 César. Furthermore, François Cluzet – already in Molotov – and Denis Lavant make a brief appearance.
Source: Cine Serie
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