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On the poster of “Alpha”, the latest film by Julia Ducournau which released on August 20, Golshifteh Farahani gives an interview to the magazine “Marie-Claire”. Born in Iran, exiled and rebellious against the mullah regime, the actress returns to her first steps on French territory. Painful acclimatization …
Born in Iran, Golshifteh Farahani recounts her arrival in France: “I was a foreigner and I was going to be a foreigner forever”
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Alpha Going out in dark rooms on August 20. This new achievement by Julia Ducournau prohibited at least 12 years presented at the last Cannes Film Festival, Golshifteh Farahani embodies the mother of Alpha, a 13 -year -old teenager with whom she lives. Doctor, she treats patients affected by a virus while she tries to keep her brother toxicomina played by Tahar Rahim alive. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm …
In promotion for this film considered the most radical of Julia Ducournau, to whom we also owe Titanium who had received the golden palm of the Cannes Film Festival, Golshifteh Farahani gave a long interview to the magazine Marie-Claire. The interview took place in a Parisian hotel located in the heart of the chic Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. During this exchange, it is impossible not to approach the actress’s exile. Born July 10, 1983 in Tehran in Iran, Golshifteh Farahani continued to challenge the mullahs regime. Ignoring the wearing of the veil, discovering a breast in the trailer for revelations to the César in 2012 and posing naked on the cover of the magazine Egoist In 2015, Iranian has always defended his ideas.
Golshifteh Farahani victim of fainting when he arrived in France
But eighteen years ago, Golshifteh Farahani had to go into exile and arrived in France. A difficult arrival for her body and for her mind when she did not know culture or language. “”I had the feeling of living a moment when I did not want to exist in a place whose language I did not speak and did not know the rules. I had arrived but I was dead. I was a foreigner and I was going to be a foreigner forever“, she confides in Marie-Claire Before sharing a very specific anecdote. “”I went to celebrate the 50 years of marriage of my ex-parents (she was married to Amin Mahdavi, brother of the decorator India Mahdavi between 2003 and 2011 editor’s note). Everyone was happy but I was like a ghost. I laughed, I was dancing but I did not exist“Says Golshifteh Farahani.
This discrepancy, the actress who was in a relationship with Louis Garrel lived it deep in her being, to the point of making discomfort of it. “”It was so bad that I vanished. It happened to me at the Tuileries garden … five hours later, I got up, without understanding what had happened“, Remember the one who will chair the jury for the 51st Deauville American cinema festival next month. Her remedy: sleep.”Sleep protects me. It is a form of defense mechanism. Baby, I slept too much, you had to wake up to give me milk. As if I didn’t want to be awake in this world. Even today, when I hurt, I stay in my bed“Explains the 42 -year -old actress who will never forget where she was born and where she comes from.
