Rose: majestic Françoise Fabian (review)
The actress illuminates this beautiful first film by Aurélie Saada as a septuagenarian rebuilding her life and loves after a painful bereavement. To see this evening on France 3.
Aurélie Saada has two loves. The song of course (solo as well as in a duet with Brigitte alongside her accomplice Sylvie Hoarau) but also the cinema.
Member of the collective Les Quiche (with notably Isabelle Vitari or Benoît Pétré, the director of Thelma, Louise and Chantal), authors of Foonshe had left this second passion somewhat aside in recent years… until Pink which marked his big debut in directing a feature film at the end of 2021.
Rose, a septuagenarian who, after the painful loss of her husband, will rebuild herself by ignoring the stereotypes of a society which would like to find love again – especially in arms much younger than herself – to be forbidden to her. Aurélie Saada films here the reconnection of a woman to her own desires, the rediscovery at the age of 78 of who she really is with a generosity and greed that crosses the screen.
As gifted in group scenes as in intimate one-on-ones, as comfortable in the field of comedy as in this ability to never arouse an emotion that is never forced, the filmmaker shines behind the camera and this sun radiates the band of actors that she brought together: Aure Atika, Pascal Elbé, Gregory Montel and last but not least… Françoise Fabian. The heroine of My night at Maud’s transcends this character of Rose, embodies with incredible finesse and accuracy her metamorphosis from a somewhat self-effacing wife who has always sacrificed her desires to those of her family into a free woman finally daring to write her story in the first person singular. An exciting first film.
Trailer :
Aurélie Saada: from Brigitte to Rose
