Meeting with Fanny Ardant, the actress who ignores the weight of years

The beautiful age

In terms of age, France bears no resemblance to the United States and we are happy about that... Rarely do roles worthy of the name after their forties, French cinema, more daring, increasingly features heroines of all ages, embodied by actresses who assume their date of birth and are in no way threatened by unemployment. Alongside Fanny Ardant, the "veterans" Catherine Deneuve (78 years old) and Nathalie Baye (73 years old) thus continue to inspire ambitious filmmakers, as they have proven in recent months in "In her lifetime", to Emmanuelle Bercot for the first and “Haute Couture”, by Sylvie Ohayon for the second.

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In their wake, many actresses blast macho stereotypes by portraying characters who proudly display their age and their desires in shambles. Isabelle Huppert (68) occupies the screens with the regularity of a metronome and almost always for the better, as she demonstrates at the start of the year in "Les Promesses", the powerful political fiction by Thomas Kruithof (in theaters since January 26). Same observation for Juliette Binoche (57), once again excellent in "Ouistreham" by Emmanuel Carrère (in theaters since January 12).

Behind these "headliners", there are many French actresses who have passed their fifties and are living at this age, which is not canonical, the best hours of their careers. From Karin Viard (56 years old) to Emmanuelle Devos (57 years old), via Sandrine Kiberlain (53 years old), Valérie Lemercier (57 years old) or Isabelle Carré (50 years old). Non-exhaustive list… “Luckily there are many directors in France who do not count the wrinkles of actresses before offering them scripts and who know that women over 50 are no less interesting than the others. , far from it, comments Fanny Ardant. More and more directors are offering exciting roles to actresses my age and older…” No one complains.