After “Benedetta” by Paul Verhoeven, Virginie Efira is playing again in a big role. In “Madeleine Collins”, she plays a woman with multiple identities, several lives which are the result of a mysterious drama. We met the Franco-Belgian actress, currently at her peak, to talk with her about films dear to her heart.
A new big role for Virginie Efira
It has been several years now that Virginie Efira has played major roles in high-flying films. Currently showing Madeleine Collins, Hitchcockian thriller in which she plays with several identities, the actress shows the extent of her register as a loving mother, independent woman, determined to make a scaffolding of lies stand. Film of a headlong rush, also works on the possibility of fiction, Madeleine Collins by Antoine Barraud gradually unveils his mystery and leaves the viewer in a stupor made of empathy and fear.
Judith leads a double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl, on the other Melvil, with whom she has two older boys. Little by little, this fragile balance made up of lies, secrets and back and forth cracks dangerously. Trapped, Judith chooses the headlong rush, the vertiginous climb.
Encounter
We met Virginie Efira and, before coming to Madeleine Collins, we wanted to know which films she retained, those which had an impact on her career and especially on her way of considering her profession of actress (video interview at the top of the article). Regarding Madeleine Collins, she engages with enthusiasm on this story, which she describes as a “metaphysical thriller”.
As a bonus, she revealed the sequences that she particularly remembered from the film, those where she shares the screen with the director and actor Nadav Lapid. See below.
