Who is Anamaria Vartolomei, the actress who creates “L'Événement”?

• In Audrey Diwan's “The Event”, Anamaria Vartolomei, a 22-year-old actress, plays with bewildering aplomb a young literature student from the 1960s who becomes pregnant and finds herself without anyone to turn to when she decides to leave. abort.

• Anamaria Vartolomei was born in Romania in 1999. She was 6 when she arrived in France without speaking a word of French.

• She says she is "ready" to assume a recognition still to come and to pursue a career that one already imagines breathtaking.

If

is such an event, it owes it to Anamaria Vartolomei. In Audrey Diwan's film Golden Lion in Venice, the 22-year-old actress embodies with bewildering aplomb a young student in Letters from the 1960s who becomes pregnant and finds herself without anyone to turn to when she decides to go. 'abort.

"I was impressed by the quality of the text, the accuracy and precision of the dialogues and the aspects of the life of a young woman," Anamaria Vartolomei confides to

.

We speak of clandestine abortions, of course, but we also speak of desire, intellectual desire, pleasure, physical desire, class defectors, the desire to rise up socially… We speak of a vocation.

Me, I liked the accuracy and I liked the complexity and the richness, the nuances of all this course.

The one that Annie Ernaux tells in the book published in 2000, which the film adapted for the cinema.

The soldier of his own war

If the heroine of the film decides to abort and sticks to it despite everything, it is because she has no choice. Neither legally nor medically (the practice is then prohibited and punishable by prison). This girl from a modest background simply sees no other solution to continue her studies and maintain the goal of social advancement that she has set for herself. On the same horizon as the look that Audrey Diwan asked her to have in mind during the filming, "as if she was the soldier of her own war", explained the director in an interview with

published on Friday. latest. Stubborn and silent poses that are not unlike those of Emilie Dequenne in

or Natalie Portman in

.

Anamaria Vartolomei was born in Romania in 1999. She was 6 when she arrived in France without speaking a word of French.

But her qualities of integration and her excellence in theater lessons have earned her to be selected among 500 other girls to play 

by Eva Ionesco, to play the role of the child director facing an abusive mother played by Isabelle. Huppert.

She says she is "ready"

Three prizes for this film and seven other roles later (in 

and

, here it is again in

that helped her, she says, "to discover herself" as a young woman and "to touch things" that she had never touched before as an actress.

Anamaria Vartolomei confides that this acquired freedom "nourished and grew".

To the point that she says she is "ready".

To assume a recognition still to come and to pursue a career that we already imagine breathtaking.

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"We must dissociate legal abortion and clandestine abortion", insists the director Audrey Diwan

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Venice Film Festival: The Golden Lion for "The Event" by Audrey Diwan, women in the spotlight

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