A 35-year-old single mother of a 7-year-old boy the author of two novels suffering from terrible writer’s block a failure at relationships and quitting smoking a sleepwalker who prepares cakes while slumbering and a sometime mute Célimène—who also goes by Nathalie and other names out of discontentment with herself—is perhaps Fillières’s most intriguing creation. Wonderfully played by Chiara Mastroianni the gorgeous droll depressive becomes the focus of 17-year-old fan Anaïs (Agathe Bonitzer) who’d like to be the subject of her next book. At first she’s an annoyance but her stalkerish ways might actually be something more meaningful.
Pardon My French (Un chat un chat)
Sophie Fillières 2009 105min 35mm
Starring Chiara Mastroianni Agathe Bonitzer Malik Zidi Dominique Valadié
Preceded by the short The Striped Truth (La vérité zébrée)
Sophie Fillières 2008 10min DCP
On her birthday a woman in her thirties receives a peculiar chair from her parents. In this surreal short film Sophie Fillières reunites with her sister actress Hélène Fillières in the lead role.
Cinema at L’Alliance New York is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas and Air France.
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