"La Petite Femelle": this news item that inspired the France 2 TV movie: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

As the eleventh season of the family series Clem is in preparation, the star actress has put aside her role for a whole different genre, far from the relaxed, family and contemporary atmosphere of the series. Indeed, Lucie Lucas embodies in the TV movie The little female, broadcast Monday February 1, 2021 in the evening on France 2, a student who killed her lover in the 1950s. This is the adaptation of the eponymous book by Philippe Jaenada, published in 2015.

The story takes place in 1951. Pauline Dubuisson is a young medical student in Lille. She lives a passionate love affair with Félix Bailly, a brilliant 25-year-old student. The young man, madly in love, wants to marry Pauline. But the young woman, very free and independent for the time, refused, determined to obtain her diploma and not to drop her studies to become a wise wife. The young man, hurt in his pride, leaves her and plans to marry another young woman. Jealous, desperate, she then shows up armed at his place and shoots him several times, including two bullets in the head.

"We can all identify with Pauline Dubuisson"

But did the blows go off on their own as Pauline Dubuisson claims? Did the young man die from having wanted to seize the weapon that Pauline wanted to turn against her? Did the young woman kill him in cold blood? The affair at the time unleashed passions, the press got involved, public opinion grew passionate. Especially since the shadow of the Second World War still looms. Pauline Dubuisson is accused of having slept with the German occupier. In 1953 his trial was held. The young woman will be sentenced for the murder of Félix Bailly to hard labor for life. She only escapes the guillotine thanks to the only woman on the jury.

Lucie Lucas said she was very touched by this story. In an interview with nice morning, the young actress confides: "What happened to her could have happened to me, I think. And we can all identify with Pauline Dubuisson. Even if we don't have the same personality. Because society has tried to impose things on us, to each of us (…) It is a true example of feminism, but that she did not seek to give. She was just her and she paid for it with her life. " The TV movie will be followed by a documentary in Infrarouge magazine: Pauline Dubuisson, the impossible forgetting.

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