Virginie Ledoyen is currently starring in the thriller “Le Mangeur d’âmes” by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. But do you know what his best film is according to AlloCiné Internet users?
Twenty-one years after Saint Ange by Pascal Laugier, Virginie Ledoyen returns to terror. In a slightly less horrific mode however because, despite the pedigree of its directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (authors of the ultra-bloody Inside), or even the title of the film, The Soul Eater plays more like thriller map.
Against the backdrop of a legend that is passed down from generation to generation in a village in the Vosges, the scene of a series of disappearances which two police officers will investigate. Including Commander Élisabeth Guardiano, played by Virginie Ledoyen.
But do you know what the latter’s highest rated film is on AlloCiné?
Released in May 2023, a few days after its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival, Love and the Forests obtains an average of 3.9 out of 5. Like Rémi sans famille (2018) but with more scores, which makes it the top of Virginie Ledoyen’s career by following this criterion, even if she only plays a secondary role in the adaptation of Eric Reinhardt’s novel by Valérie Donzelli. Which is also the highest rated film on the site.
“A very great film, which accurately shows the mechanism of control”said VeroniqueLone of 49 people to write a review with a maximum rating of 5 out of 5. “Virginie Efira is exceptional. Melvil Poupaud, disturbing as can be. The dialogues are polished. Should be shown in schools. Throughout the film, we empathize with the heroine, and we ask ourselves, ‘And me, what would I have done?'”
A very great film, which accurately shows the mechanism of control
“A fair and remarkable story with a clever Hitchcockian taste”said for his part Sébastien Monneret. “Discomfort sets in little by little in a heavy and oh-so-realistic climate. Bravo to the director. It’s brilliant.” While Sabrina talks about an opus “moving and wonderfully played” and Julien C. rent one “very successful, and very free, adaptation of Eric Renhart’s novel by Valerie Donzelli at her best.”
“Virginie Eifira and Melvil Poupaud at their best in this chilling story of a woman under the influence of a narcissistic and formidable pervert. Masterful.” “[Valérie Donzelli] here acquires a maturity that he lacked in his first films, an aesthetic mastery in the service of a rigorous scenario.finally analyzes Let’s celebrate cinema.
“Perhaps he needed this decentering, after a first (too) personal feature film, to achieve, through the universality of the combat represented, his most accomplished artistic expression. A masterpiece embodied by two remarkable actors: Melvil Poupaud and Virginie Efira.”
And you ? What did you think of Love and the Forests?