Festivals - FCAD 2021 : Discover the president of the jury of Deauville

By Mulder, 22 june 2021

"To have been part of it for 38 years and yet still be so... overwhelmed, bowled over, astonished, shocked, frightened, terrified, amused, tenderized... it's good that cinema has a magic that no one can quite explain." - Charlotte Gainsbourg

If audacity could take flesh on the screen, it could undoubtedly be embodied in Charlotte Gainsbourg. An actress of risk, of shameless delicacy, Charlotte Gainsbourg has built her game on flaws and authenticity. Charlotte Gainsbourg launches herself into films by taking a great leap into the void, with risk pegged to her body. Claude Miller, Lars von Trier, Riad Sattouf and Gaspar Noé have all understood this by offering her dangerous roles in which she commits herself to the service of the film without any net or filter.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is also of course a voice, a voice that whispers, a voice that whispers, but above all a voice that dares and challenges: Jacques Doillon, Bertrand Blier, Yvan Attal, Benoît Jacquot... and so many others have been able to detect the disturbing power of her rhythm and her singular musicality. Behind her melancholic fragility lies an Amazon of the cinema: each of her roles is like a stunt in which she commits her whole self with reckless timidity. Other directors, such as Alejandro González Iñárritu, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, Wim Wenders and Arnaud Desplechin, have sought out her dark and bewitching side, while others, such as David Bayley, Eric Rochant and Franco Zeffirelli, have sought out her troubled nature. She has the gift of bringing out, whatever the type of role, the grace, the flickering of the soul that all great filmmakers seek. Shy, scandal does not intimidate her. Popular, she explores the margins. Instinctive, she admires mastery. In English or in French, funny or melancholic, actress and musician, she cultivates her ambiguities and paradoxes. To lead all the looks in this exceptional year in many ways, we needed this actress of international stature, now a director, this adventurer of the cinema, and we are grateful to her for having accepted the mission of President of the Jury with unabated enthusiasm.
 
(Source: Press release)