Actresses

Marcelline is an actress haunted by her role of Natalia Petrovna, heroine of Ivan Turgenev’s "A Month in the Country", which she is rehearsing with great difficulty. She tries to wash away her anxieties in a swimming pool with the help of a Glenn Miller tune. But it doesn’t work. Nothing can stop time marching on, cruelly reminding her that she’s 40 and still without child. Ever astonished by a world to which – it seems to her – she has never found the key, Marcelline nonetheless seeks endlessly to communicate with all those around her. But what can truly help her understand what she is doing on Earth? The Virgin Mary with whom she is already negotiating? Is it her father’s ghost, sitting magnificently on his lovely couch? Is it her mother, with her crazy perspective and love of boat trips? Or, much more simply, a kiss, one evening, from the youngest of the young leads? The film won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

She was born in 1964 in Turin, Italy, daughter of industrialist Alberto Bruno Tedeschi and concert pianist Marysa Borini and sister to actress Carla Bruni. She is married with Italian filmmaker Mimmo Calopresti. She grew up in Paris because her family was persecuted by the communist Red Brigades. Her acting debut came with Paulette (1986), by Claude Confortès, and her first major role was in Hôtel de France (1987), by Patrice Chéreau. Among the almost 70 films in which she already participated are Queen Margot (1994), by Chéreau, Mon Homme (1996), by Bertrand Blier, The House (21st Mostra), by Sharunas Bartas, I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (24th Mostra), by Calopresti, 5x2: Five Times Two (28th Mostra), by François Ozon, the collective Tickets (29th Mostra), Time to Leave (2005), also by Ozon, Munich (2005), by Steven Spielberg, and A Good Year (30th Mostra), by Ridley Scott. Her directorial feature debut was Il Est plus Facile pour um Chameau... (2003).

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA