The 43 -year -old actress lends her voice to the words of Vanessa Springora in the theater. In the premises of the Kourtrajmé film school, in Montfermeil, where she directs the actors section, she knocked out with beer and diversity.
by Laurent Carpentier
Montfermeil, between dog and wolf. A winter rain envelops this Parisian eastern plateau and its buildings beaten by the winds. After the 2005 riots, the State invested massively here, in this territory of Seine-Saint-Denis. Ludivine Sagnier opens the door of the small modern hangar where she gave an appointment. A table, a few folding chairs, cashews, cherry tomatoes, a beer pack; On the fridge, stickers (“Essonne antifas”); And, in the oven of the stove, a few cheese skewers that she put to heat. Welcome to the Kourtrajmé film school.
When, four years ago, Ladj Ly (Les Misérables, 2019), pillar of this collective (with Romain Gavras, Kim Chapiron – which she married -, Toumani Sangaré or Oxmo Puccino …), creates here, At the Medici workshops, a school to train, each year, a dozen screenwriters and directors, the actress launches her: “At a time when we say about the representation of minorities on stage, it is not coherent. It also takes a training for the actors … “Answer:” What do you know? You’re going to take care of it. “
This is how Ludivine Sagnier finds himself, a volunteer and delighted, at the head of a blank page: from 500 to 800 candidates each year, twelve students on arrival for a free – six -month training. “A form of political engagement”, she underlines by stripping the bottles that are bottled at the neck. On the building, on the street side, drag the traces of the old occupant of the premises. “A manufacturer of kibbles. It was disgusting. Rat droppings everywhere. We have cleaned everything ourselves,” she says. Upstairs, half a dozen beds can accommodate the poorest. Below, in the kitchen area, we drink the beauty of the D system D, precariousness and collective spirit, which are the raw material of the Kourtrajmé tribe.
not a victim
Since then, Ludivine Sagnier has been the big gap between, on the one hand, Montfermeil and, on the other, the castles of Maintenon and Chantilly, where she gives the reply to Michael Douglas, in a series on Benjamin Franklin whose She interprets the good friend. And then, today, the Théâtre de la Ville, in Paris, where on the stage of the Cardin space, until November 30, it gives to hear these words by Vanessa Springora: “A father with absent subscribers. Pronounced taste for reading. A certain sexual precocity. And, above all, an immense need to be looked at. All the conditions are now met … “In 2020, in consent, the writer told her bond under the years, in the years in the years 1980, with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, who had made his love for very young girls his pride and glory: “At 14, we are not supposed to be expected by a 50 -year -old man at the end of his College, breath, alone on stage, Vanessa-Ludivine, to find yourself in her bed, his rod in the mouth at the time of snack … “
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