Qwhen she is in the midst of her tribe, she no longer belongs to herself. But the few times she manages to get out of it—” You know what ? You annoy me! I’m going out tonight. Get by, and if there’s a problem, the Samu is at 15! – She doesn’t belong to herself either. Then she’s overcome with remorse and bombards her offspring with worried text messages, indifferent to flirts, which she sends in two words and three movements: “I have five children, all teenagers. If you like, I can introduce them to you. You’ll see, they’re super cute…” And the other for scrolling: “Oh! I didn’t know. Sorry ! »
As every year, the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival, whose 16th e The issue begins on August 22nd (read field) and which one Point is a partner who was able to dig up some nuggets. Of that this Tony with family, written and directed by a very young filmmaker: Nathan Ambrosioni, 23 years old. The latter is surprisingly mature and paints the portrait of a woman of infinite tenderness. He also provides Camille Cottin (Toni) with a touchingly accurate portrayal of a stressed mother struggling with a tyrannical mental strain.
To see Toni shaking out the covers of her five teenagers every morning so that they “decompose” ; Restlessness at breakfast, dinner and before going to bed; struggles with the laundry baskets, the Christmas tree, the obstacle course, the overdrafts, his odd jobs and like his sponges absorbs the fears of the whole family in an atmosphere of constant confusion (” That’s enough ! » ; « Go Go! » ; « I’m not hungry anyway! » ; « You jerk! “); When you see Toni comforting, scolding, instilling guilt and carrying the house away alone at arm’s length, you think of Marguerite Duras: “We mustrepeat a lot. A woman’s work, from getting up to going to bed, is as hard as a day of war […]. We are here at the bottom of the mine. » Lasts, again, in material life (POL, 1987): “In motherhood, the woman leaves her body to her child, her children, they are on her like on a hill, like in a garden, they eat her, they hit her, they sleep on her and she lets herself be devoured and.” She sometimes sleeps while they are on his body. »
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“Toni, with the family”
Toni (Camille Cottin) is raising her five teenagers alone. Was a big family his wish? “I was very fertile” she withdraws. She is doing quite well, but at what cost: the mental strain is overwhelming! While the two eldest prepare to leave the nest, Toni decides at the age of 43 to take her life into her own hands. Not only does Camille Cottin keep this loving and ungrateful tribe at bay; This beautiful film directed by Nathan Ambrosioni (23 years old) is largely based on his game, all with an understated sensibility.
on the string. Antonia, who all her friends call Toni, is that mother who devours her children. As Marguerite Duras says: “That doesn’t happen in fatherhood. » And that applies all the more here as there is no father in Toni’s house. Camille Cottin gracefully embodies this single mother, always on the move, always on the edge, fragile, gentle and feverish, always struggling not to be overwhelmed. In short, a tightrope walker mom. “People who are constantly on the move fall when they stop. I play better from the movement. says Camille Cottin. We are far from the tornado Andréa Martel, one of the series’ artistic agents Ten percentLGBT Amazon and heeled bulldozer, the role that launched her career.
” Heart attack “ by Dominique Besnehard, General Delegate of the Angoulême Festival (with Marie-France Brière), Tony with familypresented out of competition allows Camille Cottin to deploy a new game. “He’s a character whose strength isn’t expressed at all like it was in my previous roles, where it was expressed head-on,” observes the actress. “As Jeanne Moreau said, Camille takes this role one step further,” Judge Dominique Besnehard, also producer of Ten percent.
“The fact that five teenagers flock to Toni illustrates his problem: How do you find your own body, independent of your own children? » asks the director and screenwriter of the film. All about her maternal devotion, Toni, “Heroine of Reality”, wakes up at the age of 43 with this realization: her status, which has made her put aside any desire other than being a mother “good enough”, is subject to planned obsolescence. Like her eldest, Mathilde (Léa Lopez), plagued by doubts about orientation, Toni asks herself: What will happen when the last sibling has left the nest? What will she do with her life when everyone is gone? In one of the most touching scenes of the film, she says to Timothée (Oscar Pauleau), the most fragile of her children, whom she wants to snuggle up to: I’m so proud to be your mother, don’t imagine how proud I am… But I can’t be just that. »
“domestic burden”. Tony with family is a film about desires that a mother should not give in to. A desire that frees itself here from the eyes of the people. “Male desire is not the issue. Through Toni’s interpretation, I realized the extent to which she constantly endures minor violence, the extent to which her environment keeps her in a place she no longer wants and what prevents her from developing further. What I initially wanted to give back to her is her tiredness and her loneliness. Domestic confinement, the neurasthenic ritualization of the household. This domestic reproach had to be felt,” adds Camille Cottin, who we’ll also see in Kenneth Branagh’s new film earlier in the school year, Mystery in Venice, the third adaptation of this work by Agatha Christie. This time another opportunity to take a step up in his Hollywood career.
“Toni, with the family”, by Nathan Ambrosioni, hits theaters on September 6th. To be seen on August 23 at the Angoulême Film Festival.
“Le Point”, partner of the Angoulême Film Festival
Switzerland has been invited to the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival* and is Guest of Honor at its 16th edition e Edition that took place from August 22 to 27 and whose Point is partner. This pays tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Tanner, who died almost a year ago, as well as Claude Goretta, Michel Soutter and Michel Simon. Eleven films will be in competition, with female directors topping the list this year. “Women who have something to say and offer great roles to other women”, notes producer and former agent Dominique Besnehard, lynchpin of the festival. This is how we find Laure Calamy in the new film by Caroline Vignal (Antoinette in the Cevennes)who questions female infidelity Iris and the men ; Yolande Moreau, heroine of her third feature film, The Poet’s Bride ; Anaïs Demoustier in time to lovethe new work by Katell Quillévéré (Suzanne, Mend the Living…) ; Noée Abita as a young lawyer in first case, premiere film by Victoria Musiedlak; Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Rosalie by Stéphanie Di Giusto who paints the portrait of the person called “The Bearded Woman”. Laetitia Casta will chair the jury this year. As every year, highly anticipated films will be previewed, including the little one, by Guillaume Nicloux, for the opening ceremony and in the presence of its protagonist, Fabrice Luchini. Among other things again: the broadcast – world premiere – of the new film by Denys Arcand, testament ; from Frédéric Tellier’s biography, Abtsteinembodied after Lambert Wilson (winter 541989) by Benjamin Lavernhe or the new thriller by Yann Gozlan, visions, with Diane Kruger and Mathieu Kassovitz. The Charente Bar offers with PointThursday 24 at 3pm in the Angoulême courthouse, a debate on secrecy and Switzerland§ NB
* Complete program on filmfrancophone.fr
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