Midwife: Queens Catherine | Premiere.fr
Brought together on screen for the first time, the two Catherines (Frot and Deneuve) are imperial.
France 2 will broadcast this Sunday Midwifea film by Martin Provost that First advise you. Especially if you like its two main actresses, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot!
Combining the two most popular Catherines in French cinema, no one had yet thought of it. It must be said that we are no further apart than them: to Catherine Frot the earthy side and the programmatic filmography; to Catherine Deneuve the glamor and the dizzying career. It is precisely these contrasts that Martin Provost draws on (sometimes a little mechanically) who has written tailor-made roles for them. The first plays a diligent midwife, living a home life. The second plays the fiery former mistress of her late father. Their unexpected reunion (the whimsical Béatrice, sick and without attachments, invites herself into Claire’s life) provides the director with Seraphine and of Violet the opportunity to explore the issue of emancipation which is at the heart of his cinema.
Painless childbirth
The two women will obviously, it is the law of the genre, evolve in the right direction through contact with each other and question their femininity (the introduction of the character of Olivier Gourmet, in love with Claire, contributes quite a bit to this. subtly), but that is not the real point of Provost who addresses a theme little treated in cinema: that of love, full and complete, that we feel for a surrogate parent or child. With small touches, with nuanced and progressive evidence, without resorting to the mania for explanatory flashbacks, the Belgian filmmaker manages to make us forget a few facilities to produce a gentle and peaceful film, less painful than one might have feared.
Catherine Deneuve does not want to retire
