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Monica Bellucci for ELLE France

Monica Bellucci is warm. It's the first thing that strikes. She talks willingly. First from her films: “Les Merveilles”, by Alice Rohrwacher, in the official selection at the last Cannes Film Festival, and on the screens on February 11, which confronts her with the gaze of a wild young girl, in Umbria. But also "Ville-Marie", the second feature film by young filmmaker Guy Edoin, which she has just shot in Canada, where she plays an actress struggling with her student son, and "who is not the mother what she would like to be”. Monica Bellucci, a 20-year-old son? " I am 50 years old ! I could very well have adult children. I had my two daughters very late! What interests me in the role is that this mother, like many mothers, tends to lock herself in the memory of her baby son. She never broke the fusional and unique bond that we feel with her very young child. She fails to see him as an adult. And yet it is our adolescent children who reveal us. I laid bare for this role, as rarely. “Do we ever get out of our own adolescence? “I'm not sure. This continual struggle to leave childhood is lifelong. The cleaning up between what we are and what has been imposed on us is long. This sorting is not done without breakage or pain. Is beauty part of the impositions? Maybe. Monica Bellucci must not have often heard her name dissociated from qualifiers praising her physique. A search in the media would show that no article about him makes the economy. Still today, she still tops all the stupid rankings of men's magazines and sites about the most beautiful and desirable women in the world. When she was a very young girl, could her identity have been constructed independently of her features? “I was above all excessively shy, withdrawn. I have bad memories of my first years at school. I didn't like being with twenty students in one class. I was afraid of others. Even though I was born into a family with lots of cousins, what weighed on me was not so much the remarks about my physique, which could have annihilated everything else, as being an only child. It must be for this reason that I wanted to have two children. » could his identity have been constructed independently of his features? “I was above all excessively shy, withdrawn. I have bad memories of my first years at school. I didn't like being with twenty students in one class. I was afraid of others. Even though I was born into a family with lots of cousins, what weighed on me was not so much the remarks about my physique, which could have annihilated everything else, as being an only child. It must be for this reason that I wanted to have two children. » could his identity have been constructed independently of his features? “I was above all excessively shy, withdrawn. I have bad memories of my first years at school. I didn't like being with twenty students in one class. I was afraid of others. Even though I was born into a family with lots of cousins, what weighed on me was not so much the remarks about my physique, which could have annihilated everything else, as being an only child. It must be for this reason that I wanted to have two children. » what weighed on me was not so much the remarks about my physique, which could have annihilated everything else, as being an only child. It must be for this reason that I wanted to have two children. » what weighed on me was not so much the remarks about my physique, which could have annihilated everything else, as being an only child. It must be for this reason that I wanted to have two children. »

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