What does it mean to be a good actress? – Culture News: Film

"Who do you think you are, Kate Winslet?" Ariane Labed stands in front of the freighter's railing. "Dear Leonardo DiCaprio", she answers the captain then kisses her, even if she is neither Kate Winslet nor Leonardo DiCaprio.

The French drama "Fidelio", in which Ariane Labed plays the mechanic of the ship Alice, does not make fun of the "Titanic" by chance. Alice is not a fallen victim, but the only woman in the crew of a ship. Once an officer breaks into his late cabin, she resolutely opposes him. In the canteen, she says she slept with men on five continents. Since you could experience so many surprises.

For her role in Lucie Borleteau's "Fidelio", Ariane Labed won the 2014 Actress Award at the Locarno Film Festival. The 34 year old child was born in Greece, his parents are teachers and come from France. They moved with her to Germany, later to the small town of Bourges, where Labed finished high school. She studied dance and theater, founded groups, played on stage in Athens. In 2010, she became famous when she imitated all kinds of animals in "Attenberg" as a woman disgusted by the industrialized world in a grotesque and playful way.

Today, she lives in London with her husband, the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Lobster"). The meeting will be held at Poshen Islington in North London. At Café St. Paul, young townspeople are lounging on the window sill. Giant brownies on the counter. Ariane Labed sits at the edge of the tiles and pours tea from the pot. Appointments with her organized either the agency in Paris or those in London. She has no idea who has supported this one herself.

His perfume is Nomad

And yet it's a quiet time. "It's nice to sit down for a while, you always have scenarios, I realize people are thinking about me, but what if it stops?" Two years ago, Labed appeared in the video game movie "Assassin & # 39; s Creed". She did it mainly because of physical achievements that require such a role. "I like that, it's not like I'm reading the script of and say: I want to do that!"

She has a smaller share in the new British drama Joanna Hogg, who will be screened in many festivals, in the meantime, she has been harnessed for a perfume campaign Ariane Labed is the face of the perfume "Nomad" When she pronounces the name, you realize that she does not think it's great Yeah, ts A perfume

Independence is a posture, something like Alice is her character

Ariane Labed finished the script for her first short film anyway.A story of a young woman, settled in Bourges, where her parents still live.The National Center for Cinema and Animated Image (CNC) have already sent her a cancellation. is the state funding authority in Paris. "We do not understand what is the motivation of the character. Such things have written me. "

Labed does not belong to the Parisian fantasy, even in London, she feels like a tourist, she really feels like a stranger everywhere, but the knowledge of not belonging properly could be comforting. London streets, they would at best recognize the Greeks in exile.It is crazy, says Labed: It is an actress who does not film.For too long, no actress can afford it. [19659002] Cruel Competition

"Our work is based on the desire of others. As an actress, you can not do anything alone. You have received the order to be desired. "It's fucking about living one's life. At the same time, it was difficult. There is indeed the possibility of playing the game of power, to launch one's own seduction, to arouse the desire of others and to play a role. "You can use it, only then you think: what am I doing there?" In her dance studies, she did ballet and realized: It's a pure and cruel competition. Cinema is different, but it does not even know exactly what it means to be good. "What does it mean to be a good actress?"

For Ariane Labed, being intuitive means that her body, as it often happens in her films, is attacked. For Alice in "Fidelio", autonomy means being a mistress on her own desire, even when she gives herself to men. Independence is a posture; something you can see when she comes down the cargo deck. If you enter the name Ariane Labed in the Internet Movie Database, you will see under Identifier: physical acting . "I like that," she says. She still did not recognize anyone at Café St. Paul.

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created: 22.07.2018, 19:37