Interview de Roxane Mesquida concernant A MA SOEUR!-613

The screenplay for ” A ma sœur ! ” made a very strong impression on me. I read it during a free period at school and I was very unsettled by the story. I walked around school after in a very odd state… I could tell that there was something very interesting to perform in it. I had seen ” Romance ” and I felt that the film never became vulgar and, on the contrary, managed to show something very pure. ” A ma sœur ! ” is a lot

” softer ” even if there are some fairly crude moments. My meeting with Catherine Breillat went very well, we immediately got on very well. On the set, she managed to inspire us to reveal surprising emotions. She would incite the actors to continually go further and we were overjoyed by that. Anaïs and I also had a great deal of complicity, which helped us a lot. As for the character of Elena, I must say that the part wasn’t an easy one. She could come across as being a superficial and naïve girl who gets fooled by a boy. She had to be given a certain depth. There were also some difficult things to perform that I had never done for a film. For the long love scene, Catherine took her time to make me comfortable. And, in the end, I have wonderful memories of the scene, my best day of shooting.