We’ve never met an actress who says hello while rolling around, before landing back on her feet, laughing. ” Nice to meet you ! », says the enchantress, with this black, laughing look, defusing the fatal beauty side. Vimala Pons is Anna Karina with jet-black eyes.
Here she arrived, Friday November 10, in the early evening, at the UGC des Halles, in Paris: she came to present, with Karim Leklou, during a preview, Vincent must die, first feature film by Stéphan Castang, released Wednesday November 15, a rather rare kind of survivalist romance, which grabs you and makes you think at a hundred miles an hour. “Genre films interest me enormously, because they develop highly philosophical subjects, in a treatment that is mainstreampopular “, explains the actress, at the bar of the Parisian multiplex.
In Vincent must dieVimala Pons displays her talents as an athlete, and her face darkened by the atmosphere of the end of the world plows a new furrow in her cinematographic career, begun under the solar sign, since she was revealed in The Girl from July 14 (2013), by Antonin Peretjatko – she has also appeared in films by Jacques Rivette, Bruno Podalydès, Paul Verhoeven, Alain Resnais…
Born in 1983, this high-level athlete (karate and tennis) trained in the game, while specializing in juggling and balance at the National Center for Circus Arts, in Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne). “Circassian practice taught me that you can do anything. Any challenge can be overcome, sometimes you just have to tell yourself that it will take four years. And that’s quite calming in a weird way, I find, to count down to the success of an act, or a goal that we have given ourselves.” explains the performer and transformist.
His creations with Tsirihaka Harrivel, then his Dadaist solo, The Denver Perimeter (2022), in which she carries objects, each more cumbersome than the other, on her head, have earned her the reputation of a feminine Buster Keaton. The doors to contemporary art have opened and Vimala Pons will soon present her first video exhibition at the Anne Barrault gallery, in Paris, in the Marais. She also works with the French-Vietnamese photographer Nhu Xuan Hua: “It’s a Cindy Sherman-style project, where I play twelve different women. For my part, I will create music on each photo. »
To this, we must add several filmings in the coming months, including one with the Franco-Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky, plus a show in 2025. “My goal is to have Isabelle Huppert’s schedule, I’m a big fan of Zaza! » A pause, and she says: “I have too much desire for such a small container! »
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