Valeria Bruni Tedeschi boasts a long acting career and collected several awards for her performances on screen. Over the last several years, she demonstrated her abilities as a director, as well, trusting her delicate, yet powerful style that can be light or strongly dramatic. The hardships of life, whether distant memories or the ones we still struggle with, are essential elements in her stories, which often stand midway between reality and fiction.
Forced to flee Italy due to her being a potential target of far-left terrorist organizations, the filmmaker integrated this experience in It’s Easier for a Camel… of 2003. Obsession for maternity appears in Actrices of 2007. Bruni Tedeschi offers her audience the story of her life, but it’s definitely not memoir film we are looking at. She usually casts actors whom she has personal relationships with (her mother Marisa Borini or her former partner Louis Garrel) and leaves them ample space to interpret her ideas and build something she wouldn’t have imagined herself. She shows her problems ironically and tenderly. She makes us laugh and cry. She proves that printing on screen one’s own problems – like in A Castle in Italy of 2013 – that “seeing our lives from a tragicomic perspective is a victory in itself”.
Based on the novel L’intimité by Alice Ferney, adapted by the director along with Agnès Feuvre (winner of the 2022 César for Best Original Screenplay with The Divide) and long-time collaborator and author Raphaële Moussafir, the film centers around ...
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi plays Martine, a young women admitted at a psychiatric hospital after her boyfriend left her. She’s just incredible in how she portrays love crises and rebirths, which earned her the César Prize for Most Promising Actress.
A love story like many others, critical moment after critical moment – only, it is told backwards, starting with a divorce. An original reading, a pessimistic one, on relationships.
An award-winning feature and a nominee for Best Foreign Film at the 2015 Oscars, Human Capital photographs the confused morality of today’s Italy, a corrupt, rotting country.
The filmmaker reminisces her formative year at the acting school at Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, France. Faculty members Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans are played by Louis Garrel and Micha Lescot. More than a film on acting classes, this is a fresco on learning about life, when you are young and eager to step on the stage and play your part.
