First film by Nicolas Pleskof, "Murder Party" offers a three-star cast with also Eddy Mitchell, Zabou Breitman and Gustave Kerven, former resident of "Groland" on Canal+.

Alice Pol plays a brilliant architect who is entrusted with the rehabilitation of the sumptuous Daguerre mansion, a strange family at the head of a board game empire.

Miou-Miou plays Josephine, the wife of the patriarch found murdered.

Everyone embarks on a mad investigation to unmask the culprit.

Impossible to say more at the risk of spoiling this wacky detective comedy, halfway between the worlds of Agatha Christie and Wes Anderson.

"I have never played in a crime story in the form of Cluedo. I liked the personality of Nicolas Pleskof. There is always something good in a first film", sums up Miou-Miou, 72, who juggles with delight between popular films and auteur films since its beginnings in the 1970s under the direction of Georges Lautner ("A few very quiet gentlemen" or Gérard Oury ("The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob").

"Whatever I do, they only talk to me about + Valseuses +. When I die, I already know which extract from my films will be put: the one where I run along the canal shouting: + I took it.. . my foot! +", laughs Miou-Miou, Caesarized in 1980 for "La Dérobade".

Born Sylvette Herry, she owes her stage name to Coluche who baptized her at the legendary Café de la gare.

- "I support people's lives" -

"I don't manage my career. It's also good not to know that we've already done the most important thing. I just do what I want," she claims.

"The desire is very much in the script. If I like it, I shoot it".

Don't tell Miou-Miou that she is one of the most popular actresses, crowned with an eclectic career with already more than a hundred films, plays and series: "I am not a great actress : I'm very small!", she replies tit for tat in her mischievous voice and from the height of her 1.64m.

"Through my roles, I tell a story... I accompany people's lives", says the one whose last play dates back to 2015 with "Des gens bien" at the Hébertot Theater.

Actress Miou-Miou during a rehearsal of the play "Des gens bien" at the Hébertot Theater in January 2015 in Paris FRANCOIS GUILLOT AFP/Archives

Since then, she has made a first film under the direction of her daughter, Jeanne Herry, born of her affair with Julien Clerc.

Her daughter is also preparing to direct her to the cinema again.

With Patrick Dewaere, the actress had her first child, screenwriter Angèle Herry.

"In the 1970s, there were very few women in the teams on the set, apart from the script. Now, there are girls + machines +, directors", rejoices Miou-Miou, very early committed to favor of the status of women, in particular for abortion.

"I've never been harassed on set. Maybe I was too well known," she says.

Recently, in the role of a feminist icon and dapper pregnant septuagenarian, she appeared in a mini-series for Arte, "Nona and her daughters" by Valérie Donzelli: "I could not refuse this role. It's rare to also see love in the cinema after 70 years.

Miou-Miou, who has just shot a TV movie for France 2, is not tempted by directing: "I don't know how to do so I will continue to be an actress!"

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