The Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne died on Sunday, March 17 in the Paris region, at 43, after a rare cancer of the adrenal gland she had been fighting for almost two years. Leaving behind a world of shock and a filmography rich in almost 50 films, which earned him some of the greatest honors of the seventh French art.
His first appearance on the screen, at the age of 18, established the tone: Rosetta Dardenne Brothers earned him the women’s interpretation award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, where he also won the Golden Palme. A career led to the race. Back in some of his most striking roles.
• Rosetta, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1999)
This drama presents Emilie Dequenne in the skin of the main character, a teenager who loses her work in the factory and struggles to find one. A film about social misery and precariousness in which he was drilling the screen, instantly becoming a young French -speaking film hope.
• The daughter of the RER, from André Téchiné (2009)
Émilie Dequenne responds to Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc and Nicolas Duvauchelle in this film inspired by the resonant issue of the false anti -memitic assault of the RER D in 2004. The actress establishes the role of what invented this attack, causing excitement of the media; The film shows the consequences of his lie in his personal life. Golden Swann won the best actress at the Cabourg Festival.
• Lose reason, by Joachim Lafosse (2012)
Second prize for interpretation of Emilie Dequenne in Cannes, this time in the section of a certain look, Lose your reason Freely ingramated with a diverse fact that surprised Belgium: the five times infanticide committed by Gineviève Lhermitte in 2016.
Émilie Dequenne Cames Murielle, a woman taken in an increasingly suffocating daily newspaper among her husband Mounir (Tahar Rahim), the tutor of the latter (Niels Aestrup) and her great family.
• With us, by Lucas Belvaux (2017)
In this political drama, Émilie Dequenne embodies Pauline, a domestic nurse in Pas-de-Calais, taken in the fold of the extreme right by naivety. Faced with social misery, it is convinced to come to the municipal elections under the flag of the national popular demonstration, a fictional movement inspired by the national demonstration.
She discovers the pile of events behind the scene and sees her transformed personal life, some of her relatives reveal her racist opinions and others that turn her back.
• The things we say, the things we do, by Emmanuel Mouret (2020)
After four unhappy nominations, it was this film that won Emilie Dequenne to finally win a César, in 2021, in the best secondary role. She camp Louise, a deceived woman, who makes her husband believe that she leaves him for another hoping to make him loyal. An action that the world had described as “impressive.”
Émilie Dequenne had revealed in October 2023 that she suffered a corticosurrenaloma (endocrine system cancer), diagnosed two months ago and had kept her away from the sets of the film since then.
After A REMISSION PERIODsaid last December that I was fighting An increasingly aggressive diseasewhich would live “not as much as expected.” A few weeks later, he announced Having resumed chemotherapy. Before his death, he spent several days in palliative care at Gustave Roussy hospital.
Source: BFM TV
