Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut behind the camera with a moving portrait of youth during the Occupation.
Irène, a young Jewish girl, experiences the momentum of her 19th birthday in Paris, the summer of 1942. Her family watches her discover the world, her friendships, her new love, her passion for theater… Irène wants to become an actress and her days are ‘continue in the carefreeness of his youth.
This pitch is that of A young girl who is doing well, Sandrine Kiberlain’s first production. Released in theaters in 2022, this film, presented in a Special Screening at the Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival, is a moving portrait of youth during the Occupation, a magnificent hymn to life that you will not soon forget.
Delicate, fair and intelligent, A young girl who is doing well is a film that is both strong and fragile, as dark as it is luminous, which provides incredible emotions. A work which shows that Sandrine Kiberlain is as demanding in front of as behind the camera and which reveals a formidable actress in the person of Rebecca Marder.
“With this project, I could tell the story of a young girl and a period in a very personal way”declares Sandrine Kiberlainwho is directing his first feature film. “And the means to tell such a story could only be cinema, my favorite art of all. I would not have started if I had not felt “capable” of being in that place. (. ..) When I have a story that is close to my heart, when I have a “vision” of this story, then I allow myself to direct it and use the means of cinema to tell it.”
“What happens to them could happen tomorrow or in fifty years”
A young girl who is doing wellwhose story takes place in the midst of the Occupation, is fiction but also has autobiographical elements. “I made Irene a young girl who wants to become an actress, I fantasized the daily life of my grandparents in 1942, that of my parents who also wanted to become actors, all Jews, all that mixed together “reveals Sandrine Kiberlain, who wanted “show that this family is made up of people like everyone else, that what happens to them could happen tomorrow or in fifty years.”
Tonight on France 3 at 9:10 p.m.
Love at first sight between director Sandrine Kiberlain and her luminous “young girl who is doing well”: