Rosalie: Exceptional Nadia Tereszkiewicz (critic)
Addressing the theme of the woman with beard, Stéphanie Di Giusto bypasses expectations and delivers a film full of delicacy.
Released last April, Rosalieby Stéphanie Di Giusto, with Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel or Benjamin Biolay, will be offered on Tuesday evening on Canal +. First advise you.
For his second feature film after the noticed The dancerStéphanie Di Giusto has chosen to gently treat a daring subject and little explored by contemporary cinema: that of the woman with beard. Inspired distantly from the history of the Tenancière de Bar Clémentine Deait, the director places the action in France of 1870 and follows the steps of Rosalie, a young woman with the whole body covered with hairs who first decides to Hide this hormonal secret.
But after marrying the manager of the coffee of a quiet village, this fearless heroine will take on her status as a beard woman and the revelation of this hair creates a deep disturbance with the villagers. Approached as a story of almost ordinary love and postage, this sensitive story carefully avoids showing circuses or other fairgrounds and prefers to emphasize the sensuality of a body like no other. By her singularity and her freedom, Rosalie seems to appease and repair the torments of her husband who was traumatized by the war.
The interpretations of Nadia Tereszkiewicz, exceptional of delicacy in the role of the Barbe woman, and Benoît Magimel, perfect in anxious husband, proved to be remarkable. The film is made, however, more predictable in terms of supporting roles and description of hostile reactions of the crowd. And failing to completely capsize our hearts, this atypical and bitter romance has the merit of raising our minds.
