Paris (AFP)

This is THE revelation of the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival: at 33, Norwegian Renate Reinsve, hitherto unknown to the general public, on Saturday won the best actress award for her role in "Julie in 12 chapters" of his compatriot Joachim Trier.

"Bright" "sparkling" "dazzling" ... Since the film's screening on July 9, critics around the world have not had enough strong words to praise the actress of the Norwegian film "Julie in 12 chapters", born in 1987 in Solbergelva, south of Oslo.

"I am completely overwhelmed by what is happening," she told AFP in the wake of the screening.

"I know that no one has ever seen me anywhere because it's my first role. I've done a lot of theater and few films .... And each time it was little things".

If she had only appeared a little so far, moviegoers had however been able to see her tall figure and her brown hair in "Oslo August 31" (2012), by the same director as "Julie in 12 chapters".

Even though she only had one line in the movie, the two spent nine days shooting the scene in order to get the perfect light.

"The irony in all of this is that I really got to know her. We had a real experience with this film," Joachim Trier told AFP.

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And it is on the occasion of this feature film that their friendship was born.

"We met regularly and had passionate exchanges around love, life, death ... and it turns out that we encountered the same difficulties with our partner at the time. We encountered the same existential problems and we posed similar questions, ”she told Le Bleu du Miroir.

Since then, the director has never doubted her.

"I've always wondered why she never had a title role," he explains.

"It's so amazing that I said to myself let's make a movie with her."

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So, when he embarks on, with Eskil Vogt, in the writing of "Julie in 12 chapters", a portrait of a young thirty-something in search of herself against a background of criticism of post- # MeToo society, Trier thinks immediately to her.

"She's a character who looks a lot like her. She had a huge impact on the film," he told AFP.

"She is a young woman full of uncertainties, she does not really trust herself" although "intelligent, ambitious and full of humor", has developed Renate Reinsve at the same site.

The title of the film in English "The Worst Person in the World" "conveys self-loathing".

Her electric interpretation, but as stunning in moments of comedy as in moments of drama, which chronicles the several years of this woman's life, is strikingly natural.

And for good reason: "The character of Julie is so close to me. I can completely identify with her because I have experienced similar things," she told AFP.

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