A final role as a tribute. Taken on March 16 at the age of 43 years for rare cancer, Emilie Dequenne is for the last time on the screen TKTA Belgian drama of Solange Cicurel, in theaters on September 24. She plays the mother of a teenager (embodied by Lanna de Palmaert) victim of bullying. Groodt Stéphane plays the father there.
The film tells the defeat of a family after the 16 -year -old girl is admitted in an intensive care unit. The parents realize that they should have worried before their child. “Among toxic friendships, isolation, messages, mockery and humiliations, Emma’s life quickly leaned into an infernal spiral,” explains the synopsis.
A role that was particularly close to the heart of the Césarized actress, worried about the issue of harassment. “I have children, so this issue, for me, was inevitable. And then, I was harassed but in a very different way,” he trusted his schoolchildren, in an interview with the Belgian media. The free Several months before his death. And to add: Solange Cicurel has made harassment “something almost entertaining, but without glamorize suicide among young people.”
“A movie that shows a system”
“Emilie Dequenne discovered his illness a week after the end of our shooting (carried out in July 2023). So on the set, he had stomach pain. We had called the doctor. He was taking ibuprofen and that was better, the Belgian director, who signed his third feature film here, told AFP here.
And to add: “I thought it was important to make a film that shows a system, how harassment is established in schools, how small things that seem to be harmless become tsunamis in the life of the victims. […] You have to understand the phenomenon to be able to finish it. The more you enter the world of harassment, the more you will realize the damage it causes, the speed at which it goes, because there is no saved school. It has become a fight for me. “
Revealed at 18 for his role in Rosetta Of the Dardenne brothers, who had won an interpretation award in Cannes in 1999, Emilie Dequenne filmed about fifty films, including RER’s daughter (2009), Lose your reason (2012), which earned him another interpretation award in Cannes in the section of a certain look, It is not your gender (2014) or The things we say, the things we doTherefore he received a César for the best support role in 2021.
Source: BFM TV
