“Thank you Justine Triet, with whom everything begins and everything opens for me! » On February 24, 2023 at the Olympia, Virginie Efira, radiant, has just won the César for best actress at the age of 45. At the end of her speech, just before thanking her companion Niels Schneider and her daughter Ali, she does not forget the filmmaker who changed the course of her career in 2016 by offering her the lead role in the dramatic comedy “Victoria” .
Before this film, the artist had already shot seventeen feature films. But almost always in romantic comedies, which will make him confide to us, years later: “I valued it, but I distinguished between the cinema that I loved and the one that I made. »