Alexis Patri 3:00 p.m., January 08, 2022

Juliette Binoche presents Saturday in "CLAP!"

the film "Ouistreham", freely adapted from the journalistic investigation "Le quai de Ouistreham" published in the form of a book by the journalist of the "World" Florence Aubenas.

The actress explains how she convinced both the journalist, but also the director Emmanuel Carrère, to lead this project.

INTERVIEW

When she read 

Le quai de Ouistreham

, Juliette Binoche immediately projected herself into her film adaptation.

A project has come to fruition and hits theaters on January 12.

But its realization took two years and required the intervention of the actress, as she explained on Saturday at the microphone of Laurie Cholewa in the 

program CLAP!

.

Because the journalist Florence Aubenas, who signed this six-month immersion survey among precarious workers around Caen, was initially very reluctant to let her book become a film.

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"The director Cédric Kahn had called me to find out if I was interested in making this film. And he called me back a week later to tell me that Florence Aubenas did not want to sell her rights and that it was therefore impossible to make this movie, ”the actress recalls.

"I said to myself 'Never mind!', And I called Florence Aubenas. Juliette Binoche then asks the journalist the reasons for her refusal. 

Two and a half years and "a few twists and turns"

"Listen, if Emmanuel Carrère wants to adapt the book, I'm not against", concludes Florence Aubenas. Juliette Binoche then calls this other director, chosen by the journalist. But the latter is not available. "I'm in the middle of writing my novel, maybe later," he opposes.

Finally, Florence Aubenas, Juliette Binoche and Emmanuel Carrère all meet.

"Over time, the idea made its way in the mind of Emmanuel Carrère and in the mind of Florence Aubenas, explains Juliette Binoche on Europe 1." Then, Emmanuel wrote the adaptation and put in scene the movie.

This happened over a length of two and a half years, with some ups and downs, resistance to the right, to the left.

But it happened in a fairly gentle way. " 

Ouistreham 

hits theaters on January 12.