Léa Seydoux is bewitching in My Wife’s Story by Ildiko Enyedi, a film discovered at the last Cannes Film Festival. We understand why she has set its sights on the French actress to portray this woman whom a captain, played by Gijs Naber, has decided to marry following a stupid bet. The Hungarian director of bodies and souls the metamorphosis into a femme fatale with great mastery.
“His character was very delicate to compose, explains the filmmaker to 20 minutes. We had to accept that the hero becomes attached to her at first sight. She had to give flesh to this woman so that he was just a figure devoid of substance. The heroine fascinates throughout this fresco with superb images inspired by a novel by Milan Fust in which also appears Louis Garrel.
Intelligence and sophistication
This long-term love affair takes the viewer on a brilliantly staged drama that develops over several years. “Léa Seydoux captured the many facets of this woman who could not be content with being pretty,” insists the filmmaker. She is a true Parisienne as one could imagine her before the Second World War: intelligent and sophisticated. “Adjectives that correspond perfectly to the performance of the actress.
The action of the film revolves around this heroine evolving in settings worthy of paintings by masters. “The presence that Léa Seydoux exudes is timeless, insists Ildiko Enyedi. She brings a mix of sensual dream and earthy reality that made her ideal for My Wife’s Story. The viewer is seduced just as much as the hero by the desire to uncover the secret of this beauty with a mysterious past.