Presented in official competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival, the film L’Événement directed by Audrey Diwan received the supreme award on September 11. Bong Joon-ho and his jury unanimously awarded him the Golden Lion. A deserved reward for this shocking French film which will be released in French theaters on November 24th. In Bastia to present a national preview of his feature film, Audray Diwan says he nurtures many projects: “In fact, I rely on time to dictate my route. Various subjects interest me, make me react, but I don’t like subject cinema. In my film I deal with abortion but I also follow the life of this student, her journey. I like to explore life. I feel my points of emotion and I give myself time to see if it can make a film. This requires reflection because for a film we commit to 2.3 or even 4 or 5 years ».
Class 1980, Audrey Diwan wrote for various newspapers and magazines: Technikart, Glamour or Stylist. In 2007, she published her first novel, The Making of a Lie (Flammarion) followed in 2009 On the other side of summer (Flammarion). Eric Rochant then calls on her for his television series Mafia. She will then co-sign several scenarios for the big screen this time: Ami-Ami, La French, HHhH and North ferry. After a first feature film, but you are crazy (2018), she therefore realizes The event an adaptation of the autobiographical and eponymous story of novelist Annie Ernaux published in 2000 by Gallimard editions which tells the story of an illegal abortion in France in the 1960s, France before the legalization of abortion. Audrey Diwan traces the journey of a young student who decides to have an illegal abortion in order to be able to finish her studies.
Of Lebanese origin, could his roots make him write a film about this tormented country? “In fact, I have Romanian and Lebanese roots. I remember a pre-internet era when we tried to get news from Lebanon by trying to listen to the country’s radio stations from France. All of this can pierce one day », Replies the director who talks about her writing projects? “Yes I have projects in progress. I collaborate in particular with Valérie Donzelli on the adaptation to the cinema of the book Love and forests by Eric Reinhardt. I am also working on the writing of Gilles Lellouche’s next film, in a completely different register, the adaptation of a Scottish novel, and also a scenario which tells the collapse of the school as an institution with Teddy Lussi -Modest ».
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