This Tuesday will begin the Cannes Film Festival, and it is Virginie Efira who will have the honor of being the mistress of ceremonies. An experience that she mentioned in the columns of the Figaro. Starting with writing his text: “I wrote it for the most part alone. Since it is I who will pronounce it, it was essential to put my writing into it. I would like to have the humor of Valérie Lemercier, and when I see Édouard Baer, I sends him a message saying, ‘I’m sorry I’m not you.’ But we are only ourselves… So I wondered what I wanted to say. It all took a while.”
All without stress. “I don’t think you should take it all too seriously. At premieres, I often feel like I’m in a movie. You have to turn on a character. It’s almost a depersonalization. There is, in Cannes, a rather comical acceptance of hysterization. A rather contagious hysterization, moreover. A missing belt? The world is collapsing… You have to be able to laugh at that. To be in it, while taking some distance.”
If she shows as much spirit as during her presidency of the Magritte, her presentation should be worth the trip.
