“Everybody loves Jeanne” reveals a refined Blanche Gardin – rts.ch

Everybody has all the time beloved Jeanne. Jeanne is a really ingenious girl, who makes use of her mind to wash up the oceans. It helps save the planet. She is superior. However his ecological mission is definitely a fiasco, as is his life. This actuality, below the floor, his little ironic interior voice doesn’t fail to remind him frequently. Immediately, Jeanne hates herself. Over-indebted, she has to go to Lisbon and put her mom’s condominium, who died a yr earlier, up on the market. On the airport she bumps into Jean, a whimsical and considerably intrusive former highschool classmate.

>> To see: the trailer of the movie

“All people Loves Jeanne”, very effectively acquired by critics, is the primary characteristic movie by French director Céline Devaux. The place to begin of his movie is that this little interior voice that guides us all: “In my private life, it is one thing that has all the time involved me lots […]and in work, to put in writing, I always take notes. It is as if I have been in a system of inside note-taking. That is the fabric of my movies”, explains the director to the RTS.

The shock behind the interior voice

Within the movie, the little interior voice is drawn by Céline Devaux herself for the reason that director has a background in illustrator and animation. And, surprisingly, additionally it is she who embodies this little voice, who carries it. Nevertheless, initially, this interior voice, just like the character of Jeanne, had been written for Blanche Gardin. “Seeing the pre-editing of the movie, I noticed the character that Blanche Gardin had developed who was of unbelievable finesse and subtlety. I mentioned to myself: ‘if it is her voice, we’ll lose this sort of magic'”, signifies Céline Devaux. To have a witness voice, the director information herself and decides to maintain it.

>> To hear: the interview with Céline Devaux

Within the casting of the movie, Blanche Gardin (Jeanne) is surrounded by a male trio: Laurent Lafitte (Jean), Maxence Tual (her brother Simon) and Nuno Lopes (Vitor, her ex). The movie takes place in Lisbon, within the condominium that Jeanne needs to promote. It is a household story, a narrative of affection and ties that weave. “I wished to inform this sort of interior journey that we really feel every day in life: we’re ashamed, we’re afraid… there are many tiny issues that occur to us on a regular basis, and in reality I discover that very epic”, underlines the filmmaker.

A comedy about melancholy and eco-anxiety

Jeanne is a form of modern saint. She tries to save lots of the planet, works in ecology, tries to wash up the oceans of plastic supplies. On this regard, the movie additionally offers with eco-anxiety. “Once we discuss in regards to the state of our planet, our stage of data is inversely proportional to our capability to behave. It’s extremely arduous to inform your self that it isn’t critical. […] Cinema and artwork generally are a approach of overcoming this sense of powerlessness, explains Céline Devaux. There may be this chic factor that implies that while you open a e book, have a look at a portray, see a movie or hear music, sooner or later you’re a little relieved of one thing. It is usually the immense great thing about artwork I imagine.”

With “Everybody Loves Jeanne”, I wished to inform a narrative that offers with pretty critical topics, and I wished it to be very humorous. As a result of in life, usually, in probably the most critical or unhappy conditions, it may well occur that we’ve got a giggle.

On the coronary heart of “Everybody loves Jeanne”, there may be additionally insanity, embodied by Jean, but additionally despair and ill-being with Jeanne’s mom (embodied by Marthe Keller) who we study is is dedicated suicide.

The household, the hyperlinks which are woven or not, concern, melancholy, anxieties and insanity are all components that inhabit Céline Devaux’s characteristic movie, however not solely. “I wished to make a movie saying to myself: we’ve got to handle to seek out methods to reside with out always panicking. It’s kind of just like the journey that the character of Blanche Gardin takes within the movie. At one level , she realizes that it is cool to be alive. […] It sounds primary, nevertheless it’s enormous to seek out that in the present day. I discover it arduous to recollect and I wished that to be the message of the movie,” concludes the director.

Interview by Anne Laure Gannac

Net adaptation: Lara Donnet

^{“All people Loves Jeanne” by Céline Devaux with Blanche Gardin and Laurent Lafitte, presently on view in French-speaking cinemas.}