During the opening evening of the La Rochelle Fiction Festival, Sophie Révil, president of the 2024 edition, accidentally announced the presence of Laure Calamy in the credits of the series scheduled for that evening. Children are kingsprovoking laughter from the audience and sarcasm from the comedian on duty, Antonia de Rendinger.
The actress appeared “only” in the credits of two of the programs presented this year in La Rochelle, the feature film – we say “unitary”, in audiovisual jargon. I won’t let myself do this anymoreby Gustave Kervern, soon to be scheduled in Arte, and a devoted frienda four-episode miniseries, the first French production on the Max platform, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, which we will discover on October 11.
a devoted friend brings to fiction the story of Alexandre Kauffmann, The Mythomaniac of the Bataclan (Goutte d’Or, 2021), which retraced the construction and collapse of the lie of Florence M., who had posed as a victim of the attacks of November 13, 2015 before being sentenced to prison in 2018.
From this bulimia of roles that has made her omnipresent since the series Ten percent She revealed it to the general public and casting directors, in the middle of the 2010s, Laure Calamy said with a laugh, during the conversation, that she continues “an old worker who is afraid” of not working hard enough. But she is not here to talk about herself. In duet with Alexandre Kauffmann, who collaborated on the script ofTO devoted friendwants to present this miniseries, directed by filmmaker Just Philippot (The cloud, acid), which challenges the viewer to take an interest in a character with no other quality than an overflowing imagination. Guilty, as Just Philippot stated during the press conference that preceded the interview, of “stabbing the social contract”.
Laure Calamy looks more like “a psychologist” as a defense attorney. She draws attention to “the desire to succeed in life” of his character, which was one failure after another, and which sees in his fraudulent insertion within an association of victims of the attacks the opportunity for a “an adventure that allows her to fulfil herself, to be recognised, to be seen and to alleviate the pain of others”. Like his real-life model, Chris (that’s the character’s name) also took advantage of the situation to get compensation. Speaking to Alexandre Kauffmann, Laure Calamy recalls: “You think it was later that she became interested in money. She lived in precarious conditions. We are not going to excuse it, but, in any case, I embody it…”
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