France reopens this Wednesday its places of culture, including cinemas.
The opportunity to reconnect with the seventh art, after months of deprivation.
The actress Emmanuelle Béart was the guest of Europe 1 this Wednesday morning to present "The Embrace", film in which she plays and which leaves this Wednesday in theaters.
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, the new film by director Ludovic Bergery, Emmanuel Béart plays Margaux, a recently widowed woman.
But this is not a film about mourning, specifies the actress, who was the guest of Europe 1 this Wednesday morning, the day of the reopening of cultural places.
"It's a film about the reappropriation of oneself", explains Emmanuelle Béart.
Certainly, Margaux lost her husband a short time ago, "but she is no longer in this very painful phase" of mourning.
"It is well after, when it has a form of freedom found and at the same time, frightening loneliness", details the actress, relieved that the film, which was to be released last February, is finally in theaters.
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The title of the film, "The Embrace", evokes this need that the character of Margaux has for contact with the other, "this need for the other, for the body of the other, for the love of the other ", according to Emmanuelle Béart.
"Here, we are talking about a character who has actually experienced mourning and who is in a form of reinventing herself and her relationship to others," comments the actress.
A reinvention which must necessarily "go through the body".
"A Sleeping Beauty who wakes up, except that she is 50 years old"
Margaux is a woman who, after the loss of her husband, is hatching again.
And it shows through his attitude, his clothes.
It is the return to a form of appetite for life, "like a kind of rebirth", explains Emmanuelle Béart.
In one scene from the film, she goes to the drugstore to buy condoms.
We ask her if she wants a box of six or twelve.
She answers twelve, with almost adolescent gluttony.
No wonder, reacts Emmanuelle Béart.
"Ludovic Bergery, the director, often says that it's like a Sleeping Beauty waking up. Except that Sleeping Beauty, she is 50 years old. It creates a kind of dissonance."
As a parallel with reality, Emmanuel Béart says she also feels this need, especially in the current period and after having been deprived of contact with his audience and those close to him. "Me, personally, it's not the kiss that I miss, it's the embrace. It's hugging people against me," she explains.