Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi, wives of prisoners in The Prisoner of Bordeaux: trailer
Presented at the Quinzaine des Cinémas, Patricia Mazuy’s latest film will be released in theaters on August 28.
“Alma, alone in her big house in the city, and Mina, a young mother in a distant suburb, have organized their lives around the absence of their two husbands detained in the same place… During a visiting session, the two women meet and begin a friendship as improbable as it is tumultuous…”
A film about women, made by women. That’s exactly what Patricia Mazuy has accustomed us. Saint-Cyr tells the story of the creation of the boarding school for poor young girls of the nobility by Madame de Maintenon and Louis XIV. In Girls’ sports, Marina Hands embodies an ambitious groom. Saturn Bowling which dissects femicide by following a serial killer and the gradual disappearance of the female body.
With The Prisoner of BordeauxPatricia Mazuy tells the story of women through the prism of the absence of men, and this is already the case in the trailer:
For his return to the Croisette (Filmmakers’ Fortnight) after Cowhides in 1989 and Saint Cyr In 2000 (Un Certain Regard), Patricia Mazuy chose to focus her attention on the prison environment, based on an idea of Pierre Courrege (Target), who ultimately did not carry the project through to the end.
“The film was originally supposed to be hisshe says in the press kit. His intention was to make a social film about women in reception centres, visiting rooms: those who, as wives, sisters, mothers or daughters of prisoners, spend part of their lives in prison, and therefore also a lot of their time next door, on a train, nowhere…”
The script has changed a little, but the original idea is still there: to tell a story of a relationship that transcends class. To do this, the filmmaker chose two major actresses: Isabelle Huppertwhich she finds again twenty-four years later Saint-CyrAnd Hafsia Herzi (The grain and the mule, The Rapture). The two actresses are currently on the bill for People next door ofAndré Techiné.
“The contrast between the two seemed important to me.says the director. I wanted Hafsia to appear as the opposite of Isabelle.”
Noor Elsari, Jean Guerre Souye, William Edimo, Jana Bittnerova, Magne-Havard Brekke And Lionel Dray complete the cast.
The Prisoner of Bordeaux will be released in theaters on August 28.
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