“LA SOUTERRAINE”, THE BOOK BY SOPHIE MARCEAU, LEAVES US PERPLEXED. ET BRU ZANE LABEL, LA VESTALE DI GASPARE SPONTINI

Going from comedy to auteur films, sometimes defying the spotlight, sometimes forcing himself to disappear, Sophie Marceau, a long time favorite female personality of the French, unforgettable Vic from “La boum”, likes to cover his tracks, keep a part of shade. 

Perhaps, to find out more, it is necessary to draw on the side of his – rare – writings. After “Menteuse” in 1996, presented as “semi-autobiographical”, she now signs “La Souterraine”, a collection of 13 short stories and seven poems. With a promise on the back cover: “to reveal a mystery, a secret, an underground part…”

Quickly, indeed, the autobiographical or at least intimate character does not escape us. But always in a kind of unveiled/hidden way, like with this cover photo, a snapshot of her as a child, of which we only see her hair and eyes. 

No doubt, the little girl in the first chapter who snuggles under the table against her father’s leg and watches him smoke his Gitanes, is called Sophie.

The ambition of a demanding text

No more uncertainty when she evokes a shoot, a long time ago, with a singer who “played in films, occasionally” then the meeting with the latter’s daughter, who has become a “beautiful and voluptuous” director. You don’t have to look far to recognize Marie Laforêt and Lisa Azuelos, with whom Sophie Marceau shot “I love America” and “LOL”.

Throughout the pages of “La Souterraine”, the reader will essentially come across, like so many echoes of the author, female figures, at all ages of life, mothers, little girls, young women, lovers, joyful or injured. “A woman yet what is it; A momentum a promise”, poetizes Sophie Marceau. The men are there, present, sometimes too much, but never as heroes.

As for her first novel, the actress has ambition here, that of literature, of a demanding text, far from “books for actresses”. Sometimes, contract fulfilled, it charms and moves. But sometimes too, it misses the target and ends up losing us. Or, worse, weary for lack of simplicity. And, finally, to say nothing more about the Sophie Marceau enigma.

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