Marie's Story

Review Official Selection - Locarno Film Festival Winner - Variety Piazza Grande Award Official Selection - Mill Valley Film Festival Winner - World Cinema Audience Favorite - Mill Valley Film Festival Official Selection - Chicago Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Aspen Film Festival Official Selection - Cine-world Film Festival Official Selection - Three Rivers Film Festival Official Selection - Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Locarno Film Festival Official Selection - Portland Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Sedona Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Cleveland Int'l Film Festival - - --- ...this film is beautiful in its dappled-sunshine light, and powerful in the story of transformation that it tells. And Rivoire, a deaf French student who had never acted before, makes Marie both fierce and achingly vulnerable. Toward the end, we see her outside as snow gently falls; she reaches out, touching the flakes, rejoicing in something she somehow knows is joy. --Seattle Times [The film] is lovely and sweet, sad and uplifting.... it satisfies them nicely with vivid performances, beautiful imagery, and compassionate direction. --Seattle Weekly Product Description At the turn of the 19th century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls. There, the idealistic Sister Marguerite sees in Marie a unique potential, and despite her Mother Superior's skepticism, vows to bring the wild young thing out of the darkness into which she was born. Based on true events, Marie's Story recounts the courageous journey of a young nun and the lives she would change forever, confronting failures and discouragement with joyous faith and love. About the Actor Isabelle Carré is a French actress, born of a designer and a sculptor. She was living alone by the age of 15 and spent the latter half of the eighties studying acting in some of the best drama schools in Paris. In the nineties she earned a trio of nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actress before winning the award for Best Actress for her role in the Alzheimer drama Se souvenir des belles choses. She has since been nominated a further four times and has acted in films by some of the most acclaimed directors from France, such as Academy Award winner Diane Kurys (The Children of the Century), Anne Fontaine (Entre ses mains), Alain Resnais (Private Fears in Public Places) and François Ozon (Hideaway). Ariana Rivoire is a young resident of the National Institute for Deaf Youth of Chambéry, in France. When touring similar institutes looking to cast the lead role for the film, director Jean-Pierre Améris spotted her during lunchtime, since she had forgotten to sign up for an audition. He chose her on the spot. She hopes this film will help create a better understanding of the deaf and the deaf-mute. About the Director JEAN-PIERRE AMÉRIS is an accomplished French filmmaker. A writer and director, he began making films in the early 1990s. Since then, many of his films have been featured at the distinguished Cannes Film Festival, including Poids léger in the 2004 Un Certain Regard category. Actress Isabelle Carré starred in Romantics Anonymous, a 2010 romantic comedy, and the two again collaborated on his latest drama, Marie s Story. Selected Filmography 2012 The Man Who Laughs 2010 Romantics Anonymous 2006 Call Me Elisabeth 2004 Lightweight 2001 C est la vie 1999 Bad Company
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Author/Artist:Isabelle Carré|Jean-Pierre Améris|Ariana Rivoire
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