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Marceau portrays Lisa, who heads to California
for change after her grown-up children leave home and following
the death of her mother, who was famous in France. With the help
of her LA-based best friend, Luka, Lisa begins dating, with some
truly awkward encounters.
"It’s like a picture of what’s going on nowadays ... it’s like
‘Ok, let’s stop the moment, we’re in 2022 and what is the colour
of this moment in this woman’s life? And in the world in more
general’," Marceau, 55, told Reuters in an interview.
"It’s more like a little tableau painting of nowadays for a
50-year-old woman."
Marceau, who rose to fame in her native France with her 1980
film debut "La Boum" (The Party) before gaining international
recognition with movies like "Braveheart" and the James Bond
movie "The World Is Not Enough", reunites with Azuelos for the
production. Azuelos previously directed Marceau in "LOL" and "A
Chance Encounter".
The film features painful flashbacks of Lisa as a child being
abandoned by her mother. Azuelos' own mother, French singer
Marie Laforet, died in 2019.
"For me, it was quite freeing because up until filming this
story and sharing it on screen, I was the only one to really
carry it, to live it and to see it," Azuelos said.
"And then suddenly during filming, there were technicians
setting up, recreating the 1970s...therefore I wasn’t alone
anymore ... it’s strength in numbers and that’s what I like
about cinema. I don’t just make films to tell my story in a
selfish way, it’s because it’s the strength of the group, that’s
what helps hold the world together."
The film, released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, also stars
Djanis Bouzyani as Luka and Colin Woodell as Lisa's new, younger
love interest, John.
"What I really loved about the relationship between Lisa and
John was this idea that they should not be together from a
societal stereotype and that these two connect on a deeper level
through loss, through shared interests," Woodell, 30, said.
"It's as simple as that. You can find a deeper connection and it
doesn't matter what the age gap may be."
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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