Adèle Exarchopoulos takes off in I don’t give a fuck by Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre, discovered in 2021 at Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. She embodies Cassandre, a stewardess a bit clueless on a low-cost airline, practicing “carpe diem” as an escape from a painful past.
The two filmmakers, who sign their first feature film here, had thought of entrusting the role of their heroine to a real hostess before the actress imposed herself as obvious. “ Her melancholy, the kind of distress she exudes, her ability to twist suddenly to go out the next moment, all of this convinced us, ”they specify in the press kit. Adèle Exarchopoulos touches the heart when her character admits to being unable to envisage the future.
An era and a profession in the viewfinder
Hard to imagine anyone other than the actress revealed in The Life of Adele d’ Kechiche in the skin of this young woman hiding her discomfort under a commercial smile that she learned to refine during her internship. From overly drunken parties to overly fast travels, her character becomes dizzy before having to face her family and a pain she is trying to avoid. Human relations are at the center of this work, which hides nothing of their difficulties by making Cassandra’s headlong rush perceptible.
An uncompromising look at our time, I don’t give a fuck lights up with the performance of its leading actress. He also learns a great deal about the not really brilliant reality of a profession that still inspires dreams and on which Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre have documented themselves thoroughly. To say the least I don’t give a fuck does not leave the viewer indifferent.