The dramatic comedy adapted to the first novel by French actress and writer Isabelle Carré, which she herself realized, will be released in theaters on November 12.
A first feature film adapted to a first book. Dramatic comedy Dreamers From Isabelle Carré, imagined from her eponymous autobiographical novel, published in 2018 at Grasset and crowned with the Grand Prix RTL-Lire, is revealed this Monday in a touching trailer.
The film, which she co-written with Agnès de Sacy, tells the story of Elisabeth, an actress who runs writing workshops at Necker Hospital with adolescents in great psychological distress. She suddenly plunges back, in contact, in her own past; That is to say, his internment at 14 years old after having ingested the antidepressants of his mother. Little by little, the memories of these years resurface and, with them, the discovery of the theater which, one day, saved it.
“The idea was not to adapt the book, but to resume my teenage experience in the 1980s, interned in a psychiatric hospital at 14, and put it in parallel with young people suffering from similar difficulties, today”, details the director and actress, who received the César for the best actress in 2003 for Remember beautiful thingsin Sud-Ouest.
A film on mental health dedicated to adolescents. “There was no question of showing glaucous or violent images to children aged 12 or 13,” she explains. This is why I wanted the realization to be beautiful, until the choice of title. ” And to specify: “It is not a documentary with brutal images that twist our hearts. It is a film that tends towards light, which must give hope to young people.”
Isabelle Carré responds to Bernard Campan, Judith Chemla, Tessa Dumont Janod, Nicole Garcia or Pablo Pauly. Dreamers will be released in theaters on November 12.
