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AFI Fest: ‘Laurence Anyways’ Stars Melvil Poupaud & Suzanne Clement Chat about Director Missionary Dolan’s Enter, The Late-’80s Setting & More
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Into His Arms: Melvil Poupaud’s Romantic Heroes and Villains
by Helen Barlow
In his recent movies, French actor Melvil Poupaud has found himself in the arms of some of his country’s greatest actresses. He’s in two French Film Festival films, Mia Hansen-Love’s One Fine Morning with Lea Seydoux, and Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister, where he’s estranged from his sister, Marion Cotillard, while living in idyll in the French countryside with Golshifteh Farahani. Poupaud was also in last year’s French Film Festival film, Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers, where he was in love with Fanny Ardant.
In our interview, the 50-year-old is quick to point out that he also loves playing bad guys, as he does in the likely Cannes-bound Jeanne du Barry, which stars Johnny Depp as Louis XV, speaking French! He also appears in Woody Allen’s upcoming Coup de Chance, the director’s first French-language film, which may also be part of this year’s Cannes line-up.
Paris-born Poupaud started acting at the age of ten, in 1983’s City of Pirates directed by Raul Ruiz, who Poupaud met thorough his French publicist mother. He went on to make nine more films with the Franco-Chilean director. He has acted in four Francois Ozon films — Time to Leave (2005) with Jeanne Moreau, The Ref • . After a terribly slow start to the year movie-wise this weekend it's like wham bam blessings left and right -- it's all of a sudden impossible to keep up! For one FSLC's "Rendez-vous with French Cinema" as I have mentioned a couple of times this week is off and running now, through next Sunday -- I'll have some more coverage of it next week but this weekend is no slouch; check out the whole schedule here. Mr. Poupaud seen here has a movie showing tonight called When Margaux Meets Margaux that sounds fun. Besides that there's also the series of Charles Farrell heavy Fox Restorations at MoMA that I told you about this afternoon, and The Quad has just opened the 1991 film The Hours and Times about the possibly queer relationship between John Lennon and Brian Epstein, which I've always meant to see. (Plus they're still showing Sorry Angel, my beloved Sorry Angel.) And that's all before you even get to what's showing in theaters!! I reviewed Greta, Neil Jordan's delightful Isabelle Huppert stalker movie, right here, and I reviewed the Icelandic eco-drama Woman at War yesterday, read that here --both of those movies are totally one of a kind and very much recommended. Then there's Transit, Christian Petzold's Karfka-esque oddity starring the Kafka