With: Agnès Jaoui, Philippe Katerine, Valérie Donzelli
Barberie Bichette, known to her biggest despair as Barbie, may have been beautiful, a good mother, a reliable colleague, a great lover, yes, perhaps… but that was before she predictably and inevitably turned 55 (and much more to come!). Now, things are getting darker, sometimes violent and often absurd. How then will she deal with her own self, others, and simply life in general?
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2024 – Directors’ Fortnight Opening Film – SACD Authors’ Favorite Prize
Cabourg Film Festival 2024 – Panorama
Seoul International Film Festival 2024 – Opening Film
Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2024 – International Perspective
Cork International Film Festival 2024 – World Tour
Scanorama Film Festival 2024 – Crossing Europe
Seville European Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection
30th Lumières Awards – Best Actress
Press
MAKNA PRESSE / Chloé Lorenzi & Marie-Lou Duvauchelle / 01 42 77 00 16 / [email protected]
“A Highly Personal and Darkly Amusing Chronicle”
– Jordan Mintzer – Hollywood Reporter
“Calling upon cinema as a treasured way to celebrate the ups and downs, the emotions and absurdity of real life.”
– Lisa Nesselson – Screendaily
“Few filmmakers working in comedy have ever been quite as subtle, quite as attuned to quiet cadences as Sophie Fillières”
– Christian Blauvelt – IndieWire
“A perfectly faithful mirror of the playful, existentialist soul so often explored by a filmmaker who was not afraid of the burlesque and the sometimes absurd emotions of life”
-Fabien Lemercier – Cineuropa
