Pardon My French

Director and scriptwriter Sophie Fillieres, who joined the audience for a chat after the screening, had two very good reasons to make this bizarre dialogue comedy: 1 like her protagonist, the writer Célimène, who has trouble finding inspiration for her new book, the director fell into an abyss of creative impotence after a completed project, and decided to use the situation and the feelings for her new film. 2 she wrote a part for daughter who is slowly asserting herself as an actress (she is playing teenager Anaïs in Pardon My French), thus helping her to gain widespread repute. 

Another remarkable feature in this film is the encounter and the relationship between the two women that can be considered neither love nor friendship in the usual sense. The characters simply need each other and help each other in their quest for self-completion and a purpose in life as well as a way out of the desperate situation.

                                                                                         Barbara Spreiz