Guest of "Media Culture", actress Elsa Zylberstein returned to her role in "Adorables", the comedy by Solange Cicurel which hits theaters this Wednesday. She explains in particular what she liked about the script. In "Adorables", Elsa Zylberstein plays a "40-year-old mother having a teenage crisis"

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When a 40-year-old mother has a crisis ... of adolescence. In "Adorables", the first "family film" in French theaters since confinement, Elsa Zylberstein plays Emma, ​​a psychologist, but above all a mother who loses her footing when her 14-year-old daughter, Lila, has a teenage crisis. Guest of "Media Culture" on Europe 1 Monday, two days before the official release of this feature film written and directed by Solange Cicurel, the actress reveals part of the plot, and explains what she liked about this comedy .

From benevolence to war

A benevolent psychologist, Emma thinks "she has understood everything about how people work, human souls, and then when her daughter becomes a teenager, she falters". This is how benevolence gives way to retaliation "eye for eye, tooth for tooth". But this is only the starting point of the film, since this conflict plunges Emma into an analysis of her relationship with her own mother, Rose, played by Hélène Vincent. "I'm trying to settle accounts with her, and everything goes downhill ..." loose Elsa Zylberstein. 

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A film focused on human relations

A scenario centered on human relations therefore, which made the actress laugh from the first reading. The opportunity for the latter to explain how she is preparing to act. Elsa Zylberstein's secret is therefore "not to act comedy: you have to take it like another film. I never tell myself that I have to make people laugh, these are the situations that are funny." "There it was brilliantly written, a hellish script that talks about human relationships with a little side 'The War of the Roses [1989 film which tells about the divorce of a model couple, note] between a mother and a daughter, that's what I found original. "