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The Franco-Swiss Ella Rumpf won the César for best female revelation for her role in Marguerite's Theorem, a role in which she plays a brilliant student at the École Normale Supérieure in mathematics, a discipline where women are still rare and who sees his life explode because of an error found in his thesis.
Noticed in
Grave
by Julia Ducournau, the Franco-Swiss Ella Rumpf, 29, won the César on Friday for best female revelation for her role in
Marguerite's Theorem
.
She notably won against Kim Higelin, nominated for her role in
Le Consentement
, a film on child crime inspired by the Matzneff affair.
“I liked working in a register that goes beyond hyper-naturalism”
Ella Rumpf plays in
Marguerite's Theorem
a brilliant student at the ENS (École Normale Supérieure) in mathematics, a discipline where women are still rare, who sees her life explode when an error is found in her thesis.
What to do ?
Get up and start again, despite the humiliation, or give up everything to start living?
Directed by Anna Novion, the film was presented out of competition at Cannes.
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It offers an immersion into the demanding and closed world of high-level mathematics.
Born to a French mother and a Swiss father, Ella Rumpf grew up in Zurich.
At 17, she went to London to take theater classes.
She achieved modest notoriety thanks to her performance as a young cannibal girl in
Grave
by Julia Ducournau.
In October, she starred in the crazy Icelandic thriller
Zone(s) of turbulence
where she plays an influencer who accompanies her fiancé on a fear management course on a plane.
“I liked working in a register that goes beyond hyper-naturalism even if I was sometimes afraid of bordering on caricature,” she told Marie Claire magazine.