Fanny Ardant, immense French actress, is starring in Kings of the track. She plays the role of a mother who does heists with her sons, alongside Mathieu Kassovitz and Nicolas Duvauchelle in a kind of funny, dark and uninhibited Italian comedy. The director, Thierry Klifa, says he wanted to make a happy film to make people happy. The actress agrees: “When you enter a cinema, it is always a promise of happiness. When he wants to tell this story, he wants us to be happy during this time, and to come out happy“.
Free beings, in a society with one way of thinking
The actress also emphasizes that the characters are free beings, “when we are less and less free“. An idea that the actress thinks and defends, not that we are “in a dictatorship, but in a single way of thinking and in a liberal capitalism which, inevitably, always puts fortune before freedom“.
Remember that before becoming an actress, Fanny Ardant studied at Sciences Po, very politicized, her dissertation will be on Surrealism and anarchy. She who thought when she was young that violence was the answer to everything, admits to having remained violent, “very“. Thus, the freedom of these characters, in particular of this mother, particularly speaks to him. Not so surprising, because, mirroring this, the director was inspired by the actress for the writing and composition of the character.
Better to suffocate with love than to breathe without love
Fanny Ardant describes this woman thus: “I think I loved her because she might have been my sister. What I like is that she does heists, but not out of greed. She is the brains of this gang. And then, I think of this free woman who can live in a small truck.
She continues: “I like that she says go under the radar, I like the free electrons. But at the same time, she has strings to her bow: she cooks very well, she adores her children. Maybe she stifles them, but she loves them. She suffocates them a little, yes, but it doesn’t matter. It is better to suffocate with love than to breathe without love.“
Listen to Fanny Ardant talk regarding her role in The Kings of the trackhis love and his desire for freedom at the microphone of Léa Salamé.
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