Léa Drucker on all fronts: trailer for The Life of a Woman
Mélanie Thierry and Charles Berling are also starring in the new film from the director of Les Amours d’Anäis.
After Close, Last Summer And File 137Léa Drucker was again in competition at Cannes this year for A Woman’s Lifethe new film by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (The Lovers of Anaïs). A dramatic comedy where she plays a fifty-year-old without children who has sacrificed everything for her work and caring for others. Thanks to a meeting, she will experience an existential crisis…
In this role which fits her like a glove, Léa Drucker is surrounded by Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto and Marie-Christine Barrault. Without forgetting the exceptional participation of the Italian writer Erri De Luca.
The synopsis of A Woman’s Life : Gabrielle devotes herself body and soul to her profession. Surgeon and head of department in a public hospital, she runs and multiplies, overwhelmed with responsibilities. She has little time left for her private life — a husband who loves her and a mother to take care of. When a novelist comes to spend a few weeks in her department for the purposes of writing a book, her balance falters. In the daily life that Gabrielle has built for herself, is there room for the unexpected?
“When I discovered Last Summer by Catherine Breillat, it was like a revelation: I wanted to film it urgently“, explains the director in the film’s press kit. “She explores in this film something of the order of sensuality, of abandonment, which I found magnificent and which touched me enormously. I immediately wrote him a letter to express my admiration. Then, when my script was ready, I offered her the role of Gabrielle – but she had two shoots already scheduled, and I waited a year for her!”
A Woman’s Life will be released in theaters on September 9. Trailer:
