Sarah Bernhardt, la divine

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress of film and theater during the first third of the 20th century, was considered the first global star in these disciplines. The film focuses on two essential moments in the artist's life: 1896, as a moment of her consecration as an actress, and 1915, with the amputation of one of her legs. The freedom, eccentricity, and genius of Sarah are the qualities that characterize the actress throughout the film. The screenwriters did not seek to create a biopic, but rather a portrait inspired by the story of Sarah Bernhardt, her loves, her ideas, and the events that most marked her life.

The film aims to reflect Bernhardt's rebellion: her contradictions, her behavior ahead of her time, her excesses, etc. From a totally romantic point of view, it shows how passion was the axis around which the artist articulated everything else.

Sandrine Kiberlain is the actress who embodies the character of Sarah Bernhardt, accompanied by Lucien Guitry in the role of Laurent Lafitte, the great love of the interpreter. Other actors and actresses in the cast include Amira Casar, Pauline Etienne, and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet.

Guillaume Nicloux, the director of the film, returns to the collective imagination the image (never forgotten) of Sarah Bernhardt: an icon for the performing arts and the seventh art.

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