Maïwen in Cannes on May 17 – NIVIERE / VILLARD / SIPA
* Stéphane Leblanc

My King, in competition at Cannes this Sunday, about a passionate and destructive love that lasts ten years. Chronic distanced the couple that the actress and director Maïwenn rewrote for ten years before they can make a movie …

What you should know of “My King”

Why wait so long to bring to the screen the project that was visible to you heart?

I will realize a war movie one day when I have more maturity and experience for that. Similarly, I felt compelled to write a budding romance. But I did not feel sure of myself enough to take the step. It’s easier to tell youth neuroses ( Pardon me ), stories of children (Poliss) or actors ( Actresses ) than just talk about love.

One wonders necessarily what proportion of fiction and reality in these stories …

I was given this label of the director that rotates autobiographical film from my first film and I do not date me. This is a misunderstanding that comes without doubt that I played in my films and I put once images of me child. There at least I do not play … But I want to be clear: I am not a filmmaker who mixes his work and his life! It is simplistic and annoying. I feel that denies my work and my ability to invent stories.



Did you intuition from the start that it would work well on screen between Cassel and Emmanuelle Bercot

No, I was not sure at all … But that’s what I say: