INTERVIEW
She is an emotional and enthusiastic actress who has shown her gratitude to the microphone of Europe 1 after receiving one of the finest prizes of her career. At the age of 64, Ariane Ascaride was awarded the women's interpretation prize - the Volpi Cup - at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday night. This award crowns her interpretation of a courageous mother in the film Gloria Mundi by her husband, filmmaker Robert Guédiguian, with whom she has already shot more than twenty feature-length films.
Ariane Ascari plays the mother of a stepfamily, who welcomes her ex-husband out of prison. Precarious, the family is the ground of a conflict of generations: the old, of which is the mother, resigned and nostalgic of a past where the mutual help and the solidarity were present, having to face the new, cynical ambitious but fragile.
"It's a wonderful surprise, it's a bit like a dream, I'm having a hard time realizing it's really me, but it's a very heavy cup. my life that will count ", she explains, before evoking the realization of a crazy hope.
"Tonight, there was no shower, it was for real"
"I remember Kate Winslet, when she got her Oscar, saying 'For years, I repeated in my bathroom my speech and I held my bottle of shampoo as an Award.' And after, one day she has one! Me, it's a bit like that I often tell myself stories in the shower And then, tonight, there was no shower and then tonight it was for real! "says the actress with freshness.
Still on a cloud, she nevertheless realizes the importance of the reward: "It's pretty awesome at the same time, rewards like that, it comforts and gives you strength to continue."
The actress had already been awarded another prestigious award, the César for best actress in 2003 for the film Marius and Jeannette . The 2019 Venice Film Festival has also awarded its Golden Lion to the Joker movie by American Todd Phillips. Roman Polanski won the Grand Jury Prize for his film J'accuse .