Ludovic Bergery • Director of Margaux Hartmann

Ludovic Bergery. Carried by
Emmanuelle Béart who plays the lead character, the film will be released by Pyramide on 19 May as French cinemas reopen after 200 consecutive days of closure.
Cineuropa: A young woman in her fifties who’s trying to escape loneliness is a rather unusual character for a first feature film. Where did the desire to tackle such a subject come from?
Ludovic Bergery: I wanted to explore loneliness, the quest for desire, the search for oneself, for others, for love, and I found that a female character made for a better story. It came in part from my childhood because I lost my father very early on and my mother raised me on her own: I had to make my way alone in a world which wasn’t always easy to understand, and there’s a certain type of female sensitivity to love that I’m now familiar with. There’s also an almost heroic side to the relationship which this woman, who doesn’t have children, has with tenderness and desire: the social pressure is greater than it is for men, who we’d simply describe as confirmed bachelors, while people ask more questions when it comes to women, and sometimes unfairly. But I didn’t want a storyline that felt too forced; I wanted to work on feelings, to paint a portrait using tiny, subtle brushstrokes to allow the character to come together over time.

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