Sarah Biasini was four and a half years old when her mother, Romy Schneider died. And yet she never left him. It is for her daughter, Anna, as much as for herself that actress Sarah Biasini recounts, her memories of this grandmother that her child will never know. In The beauty of the sky a very moving book, which touches by its modesty and its delicacy (Stock), it evokes in particular this appalling day when she learns that her tomb has been desecrated.
It's not easy to look like your mother when she's an icon, like Romy Schneider. Sarah Biasini must constantly assume the physical comparison. She describes this physical complex that she struggled to tame. Her jawbone, inherited from her father, sets her apart from her mother, which is what makes her "not completely" like her. "Not as pretty as she is. There is always someone to tell me " she writes.
Her mother's ghost pursues Sarah Biasini all the time and everywhere. Right into the delivery room. In the chapter of her book dated February 9, 2018, she recounts this day she will never forget. The one who saw the birth of her daughter, Anna. A disturbance came over him when C., the head midwife entered the labor room. It indeed makes him think "vaguely but sufficiently" for the "confuse"to a woman she knows."A woman I cheated on having sex with her husband ", specifies Sarah Biasini who succeeds "to chase away the unpleasant and guilty character"for her of this resemblance.
The work drags on. Around midnight, the contractions follow one another. C. always stays with her. After the epidural has been put in place and between two contractions, while her child is about to be born, another nurse comes into the room who walks up to Sarah Biasini, touches her arm and says: "Oh, you look like someone, you …"The woman hesitates"but knows very well ". She obviously thinks of Romy Schneider. So Sarah Biasini who has always heard the same question hunting while anticipating:"Are you really going to ask me that now? ". It was then that Nurse C. came to her aid with this sentence Sarah Biasini will never forget: "Oh no, eh! Now is his time!". This moment when she became a mother, no one should steal it from her. Not even Romy Schneider, her adored mother
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