Bethsabée Dreyfus, costume designer of "Mytho": "We always wear the same clothes.Why would that be different on the screen?»»

« J’aime bien qu’il y ait le moins de costumes possible.»» La phrase surgit au premier quart d’heure d’entretien, prononcée par Bethsabée Dreyfus dont le métier consiste justement à dénicher des costumes. Ne pas y voir une minimisation de son rôle ni une inclination à la paresse.

Rather an appetite for the uniform: "Tintin, Astérix, Obélix always dress the same.And we, in life, despite our full closets, always wear the same clothes.Why would that be different on the screen?You just have to find the pieces that will characterize the character: the right jacket, the good jeans, the good pair of sneakers.I had seen, years ago, the Danish series The Killing: the Fliquette heroine carried over the whole season only two sweaters.Great !»»

Nourished by its cinematographic references

Mytho, excellent series produced by Arte and today visible on Netflix, written by Anne Berest and produced by Fabrice Gobert, is full of these characters whose contours she defined as comic silhouettes.Or a middle class family plunged in a suburban district.Three children: 10, 14 and 16 years old.A discounty husband with adulterous impulses.

And Elvira, interpreted by Marina Hands, mother supplied by a routine life and an overwhelming mental charge, whose bobard will soften the burden: from the moment she will make her loved ones believe that she is suffering from breast cancer, they will be so attentive that she will have to lock themselves in her lie.Around the family, a skewer of whimsical secondary characters: the cartomancian friend in pigeon cleavage;the detestable boss in costume-tie;The sectarian neighbor in cardigan Passe-Partout…

Reading the script, funny and cruel, sent by Fabrice Gobert, whose projects she cost all the projects (the films Simon Werner has disappeared… and K.O., or the series of Canal+ Les Revenants), Bethsabée Dreyfus has, as always, thought in terms of cinematographic references."Patrick, the husband, had something from a retarded quadra of the comedies of Judd Apatow;Elvira, a little of the character of Toni Collette in Little Miss Sunshine.In the youngest, I saw a cross between Drew Barrymore in E.T.And Punky Brewster, ”she says, receiving on her Parisian terrace on a Saturday afternoon in July.

She banish too trendy clothes

After the ghosts, a dark series of ghosts, Gobert pushed her to redouble colors, prints - Elvira begins by wearing flowery blouses, checkered jackets and bootcut jeans, before snuggling, as she plays thempatients, in joggers and soft hooded sweatshirts."I also asked Fabrice the kind of films that the characters watch;The music they listen to.All that helps me grab them.He guided me to Julien Clerc for Elvira, youth rock for Patrick, and therapy taxi for children.»»

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