Mélanie Doutey tints "Le Temps des secrets" with a touch of feminism

• In "Le Temps des secrets" by Christophe Barratier, we find the young Marcel Pagnol at the beginning of the 20th century.

• Mélanie Doutey is moving in the role of her mother, a feminist from the start.

• This chronicle full of sunshine offers her a very beautiful role as a free and loving woman.

If Le Temps des secrets

blows a little wind of modernity on the childhood of Marcel Pagnol, it is to Mélanie Doutey that we owe it.

The actress embodies with great aplomb the character of Augustine, Marcel's mother, whom Christophe Barratier does not hesitate to highlight in his adaptation.

Because it was indeed an early feminist that this Augustine who did not hesitate to meet regularly with other women to discuss the right to vote, for example, when they had to ask their husbands' permission to have a job or a bank account at the beginning of the 20th century.

“The first feminist meetings date from this time, explains the actress to

.

Christophe Barratier made a point of showing how Augustine, the woman I play, frequented them and even took her son there.

“This tender mother is also accompanied by her sister (played by Anne Charrier) but they hide their activism from their husbands played by Guillaume de Tonquédec and François-Xavier Demaison.

Very discreet activists

“You should know that at the time, a woman shamed her family if she was surprised to participate in meetings of this kind, explains Mélanie Doutey.

For the hierarchy of her teacher husband, it was very frowned upon: women had to remain in the shadow of their husband.

Augustine, however, is in no way excited: she simply wishes to be able to express herself.

» Readers of

, a feminist newspaper at the time, she and her sister nonetheless loved their lives as mothers in a bright and somewhat fantasized France.

“The film evokes certain hollow problems, insists Mélanie Doutey.

He talks about the worries that love causes in parents as well as in children, but also of Augustine's illness which will bring her down a few years later.

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The carelessness of young Marcel's vacations and first year of high school is somewhat tarnished by these serious themes.

"

marks a passage to maturity for the hero," says Mélanie Doutey.

He discovers several aspects of women and different facets of his own mother.

Augustine's character is often bubbly, sometimes anguished but always vibrant with warmth for her family.

It owes a lot to the sensitive performance of the actress.

If Mélanie Doutey moves in the skin of this feminist of the first hour, free and sunny, she has not finished surprising.

On April 6, we will find her in a role of mother and wife very different from this one for the poisonous thriller

by Fabrice Du Welz where she once again proves the extent and versatility of her talent.

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