In between two Cannes Film Festival screenings, French newspaper Liberation conducted a surprise interview with Virginie Efira. Virginie Efira is currently appearing in "l’Amour et les Forêts" by Valérie Donzelli and "Rien à perdre" by Delphine Deloget, both of which are being screened at Cannes.
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| Virginie Efira during 48th Cesar Awards 2023 |
Your favorite Palme d'Or?
All That Jazz by Bob Fosse [awarded in 1980 tied with Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa, the president of the jury was Kirk Douglas, editor's note].
How would you survive the Cannes Film Festival?
the confidence in the movies I'll show them, and six spritzers if I were in another state.
The movie (or scene) that forever changed your childhood?
Eliott threw up in class as ET the extraterrestrial drank beer in the family room.
Your parents forbade you from viewing a movie, right?
Although they came too late, Clockwork Orange. Just the end, I think.
A scenario you find fetishistic or one that stays with you?
the passionate exchange between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Back.
A dry diet or popcorn?
taken from the neighbor's popcorn
To be silent or to discuss during the projo?
TO SHUT UP
The soundtrack that's stuck in your head?
Always All That Jazz by Bob Fosse and that of the Last Emperor by Bertolucci, especially the piece Rain, Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto…
A movie that makes you want to tear up the screen
The Purple Rose of Cairo by Woody Allen.
A film where it would be good to live?
I'm 16 years old and I'm in the Dirty Dancing summer camp .
The last time you cried in a room?
Charlotte Wells' aftersun with Paul Mescal, in tears for half an hour. But I was on a plane!
Your life becomes a biopic. Who in your role? And who behind the camera?
François Damiens in my role. Bouli Lanners directs .
Which movie monster or psychopath do you feel closest to?
The faceless ghost in Miyazaki's Spirited Away .
The last movie?
Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage kissing on the hood. End credits of Sailor and Lula by David Lynch, Wild at Heart in VO.
Source: Didier Peron/Liberation