Françoise Lebrun: “You have to know to accept things as they come, play with what life brings you.”
I had the chance to meet Françoise Lebrun thanks to our friends from Institut Francais in Bucharest, who year after year, at the beginning of spring, organise the French Film Festival. It was a sunny Saturday morning when I drove off to my parents house outside of Bucharest, with Sabina and Ruxandra, where we were about to meet a few hours later the French actress Françoise Lebrun, known mainly for her breakthrough role in the cult film La Maman et la Putain (directed by Jean Eustache, 1974) and more recently, for her main character in Gaspar Noé's Vortex (2022). Even though she is recognised as an icon of French cinema, she is in fact a very simple and modest woman, with so many stories to tell and a subtle sense of humor. Dressed in a comfy deux-pièces, the first thing she told me after getting out of the car was how much she loves my parent's garden and how glad she is to be here. Then all the introductions were made, followed by a brief tour of the house, some questions about Bucharest and finally, the interview.
Film producer and founder of ADFR, she dreamed since she was little of having a magazine one day. Alongside her job as editor-in-chief, she writes the interview of the month. She loves animals, jazz music and films festivals.
