PortraitThe film and theater actress, who has often played the roles of marginalized girls, enjoyed playing a wishing and desirable woman in “Simple Passion”, by Danielle Arbid, adapted from the novel by Annie Ernaux.
She appears in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, in Paris, in the midst of joggers and dog walkers. Face made up, hair undone, long blue dress. “ It’s not too much ? “, she worries about the photo. Since the shooting of Simple passion, the 16 mm film by Danielle Arbid adapted from the autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux (Gallimard, 1992), in theaters on August 11, Laetitia Dosch retained the blondness of her character, she who had mostly appeared redhead until now in the cinema, in roles of lost and outspoken girls or disoriented lunar girlfriends.
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“In the long run, I suffered from never being treated as desirable or that I was only offered marginal roles, in survival, without a specific profession, says the 40-year-old Franco-Swiss actress. Even if older actresses have more proposals than before, I find that we have generally regressed on the image of women in cinema. We have too little right to complexity, the roles are categorized, rarely with personalities like Bulle Ogier or Bernadette Lafont. Admittedly, there are beginning to be Blanche Gardin, Laure Calamy, but it is not so frequent to see on the screen women who are not only mistresses, friends or mothers. There, with Simple passion, I was relieved to be able to embody a woman who is both strong and losing her footing. “
“I warn you, there are a lot of love scenes”
Or an academic, mother of a boy, who finds herself transfigured by an affair with an elusive Russian, well-made and voluptuous (actor and ballet dancer Sergei Polounine). From Annie Ernaux, Laetitia Dosch had read texts – Girl’s memory, The Frozen Woman… – in order to nourish the shows that she creates in parallel with her career as an actress. Of Simple passion, discovered five years ago, she remembers “To have had a stomach ache as soon as the book closed, so exact is the mechanics of passion which is described in it”.
“I’m warning you, there are a lot of love scenes”, Danielle Arbid warned her at the first meeting, tired of looking in Paris for an actress who would agree to be naked on several occasions. “We said yes almost immediately, rewinds Laetitia Dosch. I wanted a movie that finally addresses desire – I was fed up with those love scenes that last two seconds and say nothing. And then, whether I’m naked, dressed or with feathers on my head, I don’t care: it’s a big role, that’s all that matters. “
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