PRODUCED THE BALL (C) TRICE ... a survey of Laura Elizabeth Bourdaud Agnes Jaoui, Judith Godreche, Sophie Marceau, The Maïwenn Besco ... Unusually for a French director, their faces are well known as their name. Logic: before moving behind the camera, they occupied the houses of the actress. Survey of artists exploring various facets of cinema. 
Her name is Julie, Sophie, Judith, Maïwenn, Isabelle or Geraldine ... She is almost 30, rather 40/50, or almost 60 years ... His face fills the screen, or is revealed behind the red curtain. And she plays the comedy. She is the daughter's friend, lover, mother, confidante, the enemy, the femme fatale. She never has the same identity. Yet each of us feels good to know. It is "our" actress. But sometimes it is not alone-ing a film actress. She also staged. This changes anything for us, spectators, she started directing? And for her? Will we have the feeling to know better? Is she going to surprise us, or we settle, feed us, giving us yet more material to cherish and dream with it? This actress-she follows the same creative work in another field? Or she undertakes the construction of a parallel artistic career from his own universe?
Ethis Emmanuel is a sociologist of cinema. He devotes his research to the reception of films, the study of public and sociology of actors and movie stars. According to him, "an actor going on behind the camera to direct, but often also for writing. This is not surprising. This is something logical for him to pass by others what he wants to express. For example, Agnes Jaoui has the same type of character in the film she wrote and in those of Alain Resnais, and more thorough. I also think Sophie Marceau in The Missing Deauville. This is an opportunity to go further in the expression of human complexity, a movie actor knows very well. "
In France, actresses who are also directors are a very small circle observed. Film professionals, me-dias, spectators ... scrutinize all the work of these women reveal each new film a piece for themselves. In 2010, the actress Geraldine Nakache was proud to say "art" to his resume. At 30, she wrote and directed All That Glitters, in collaboration with Hervé Mimran, and gathered more than a million spectators. 2010 also saw other actresses come in for the first time in the circle of directors: Valerie Donzelli (Queen of apples), Judith Godreche (All the girls cry). In each of these films, as director of All That Glitters, they held the lead role.
This is not always the case. Zabou Breitman says he does not enjoy playing in his own films and Nicole Garcia never appears in his achievements. As for Sophie Marceau, she first staged in a short film and her first movie (the two very-tobiographiques) which could be a women's doubles, Judith Godreche. But it Marceau plays the role of the debt-ve gone from Deauville, his last film as a director .. Despite the accumulation, the actress-director-ordinator made a clear distinction between the two businesses, explains Geraldine Nakache. "I really like the actress: I surrender against a director and is very enjoyable. Telling the stories of others I really like [...]. Write and stage a film is a different job, fuller, more "round". Leading actors remains the greatest pleasures for me. "She adds:" On the set of All that glitters is Hervé Mimran who directed me constantly. It was essential that I have laid eyes on me, if you lose yourself quickly and you stay focused on the game of your actors. "
The theater actress Isabelle Mergault began his directing career-ordinator five years ago. It was reward-posed in 2007 by the Cesar for best first film for I find you very beautiful. About Give and was released in October 2010, Isabelle Mergault says: "My job as a filmmaker, it's me. If there is rejection of the public, then I would say that I must do something else, because I have nothing to offer viewers than me. "In the films made by actors, two constants come . Their first feature film is often very personal, intimate, just like Forgive me Maïwenn Le Besco, or it is easier for a camel ... Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Both have reconstituted their own family for the occasion. Another constant topic for the second movie. He speaks often of the film world, even squarely into acting. It jus-ment of the case or Maïwenn Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, but with Sophie Marceau respectively so named: The Young actresses, actress and disappeared from Deauville.
Emmanuel Ethis analysis: "The players who spend behind the camera will quickly talk about the film and thus increase their own look at cinema. It's a way to gain acceptance as a writer. To be in self-criticism, saying it does not take itself seriously. "Sociologist continues:" What will be interesting is to analyze the subject of their third film! The achievement is a journey: we talk about ourselves, and then the film world. Expectations of these women that they face these trials, as steps to take to be able to make movies. " Already, rising to the realization, we must find the pulse. Sometimes it comes from outside. It is the actor Xavier Gelin which blew the idea Zabou Breitman. Isabelle Mergault, she explains that the initiative comes from actor-director Michel Blanc, which she had submitted the scenario I find you very beautiful. He encouraged her: "But if, do not worry! Everyone can do it. What is hard is to write ... "Mergault Isabelle adds:" He was right. The hard part was done. At this moment, for example, I'm writing and I'm all alone. It's difficult. When I realized, finally it's easy, I'm like a fashion designer, there are lots of little hands to help me. "
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ccording Ethis Emmanuel, the strong presence of actresses in the ranks of French directors explained by the fact that "CiC encourage women to speak out, far more than other professions . It is an environment built under the auspices of tolerance, a place that is in the vanguard. And then the real movie stars are often women. The symbol of the Columbia Pictures studios, it's still a female star bran-diss a flame! " For an actress, although she still does not act, the desire for achievement is often there. Aure Atika, which in 2011 will be on view from Skylab movie, Julie Delpy, explains on its website that she wrote and directed two short film-Trager, What's the point of voting Green? and love to "give themselves a backbone." She added: "Now I am given the duty and pleasure to pass along." But the scale is not always. Question of envy, circumstances. There are also actresses who realize their lives in a movie or two and then stick to their acting career already full. This is the case of a personality very known in France: Jeanne Moreau. During her career she has directed two films and a documentary. The first, light, evokes ... the world of cinema through three portraits of women. And in this film, Jeanne Moreau is one of the leading roles.
(This survey was conducted by Laura Elizabeth Bourdaud / she is back in full in the magazine
Muze the first quarter 2011)
The French are never much went to the cinema in 2010. However, many "small" movies great, defended by the critics, are shunned by the public. problem of distribution? To read the survey Juliette Benabent published in No. 3184 of the magazine Telerama by clicking here , investigation in which I attempt to provide some Sociology can enrich the debate knowing that "the approach to go see a movie at a theater is paradoxical. This is both to the collective experience of a work, and distinguish themselves in how to receive it. Right now, the money generated is shared by emotion clearly outweighs the need for distinction. "
