On August 12, Marion Laine's new film, Voir le jour, will be released. We discover Sandrine Bonnaire as luminous as poignant.
In See the day, Sandrine Bonnaire is Jeanne, a maternity assistant who lives in Marseille. Her daily life seems to be rocked by an endless fight: that of ensuring, with all the kindness in the world, the well-being of mothers and their babies. But the lack of staff, the mental and emotional load are increasingly felt within the team. All of this is without taking into account the pressure exerted by management on her and her colleagues. Film adaptation of Julie Bonnie's novel, Bedroom 2, prize of the FNAC novel, Voir le jour will not leave you indifferent, that's for sure.
The strength of this new film by Marion Laine is the way in which it exposes, with great delicacy, a difficult daily life experienced by auxiliaries who are nevertheless full of good will. Each faces terrible obstacles in their profession which unfortunately seems so little recognized. First, there is the difficulty in taking distance from what patients are going through. Helpers witness the first days of a baby’s life. They accompany and receive in the heart all the emotions crossed by mothers. Then there is the fear of making mistakes. If the emotional charge is real, the right to make mistakes seems outlawed in this profession. Then comes the guilt, the fear of losing efficiency in the face of a job that requires more need than it seems. Seeing the light of day is therefore an electric shock because it shows, without filter, the reality of a profession that deserves greater visibility and more recognition.
Through this unique atmosphere, Marion Laine also paints the portrait of Jeanne, incredibly interpreted by Sandrine Bonnaire. Single mother, mysterious and fascinating at the same time, she reveals herself little by little during the film. Zoe, her 18 year old daughter, seems to be her whole life. Then we discover her past, the one she left behind years before. When a tragedy takes place in the maternity ward where Jeanne works, everything changes. His experience comes back brutally: the parallel between his past and his profession is treated with great accuracy. See the day draws multiple portraits of women but that of Jeanne is striking. If her life seems unusual, her emotions are extremely universal. The unique relationship between a mother and her daughter, the fragile border that links private and professional life … All these themes make the adaptation of Bedroom 2, by Julie Bonnie, a particularly poignant work lulled with immense poetry.
See the day, with Sandrine Bonnaire, Brigitte Roüan, Aure Atika, Sarah Stern, Kenza Fortas, Alice Botté, Lucie Fagedet, will be released in theaters on August 12th.