Mélanie Laurent Wanted Film to ‘Pay Homage’ to Women With

Mélanie Laurent solid an assortment of various actresses with disabilities for her new movie “The Mad Women’s Ball,” which is ready inside a 19th century French psychiatric establishment. Because the movie is about how girls on this time have been often mistreated and misunderstood, she wished to ensure her film might rejoice these girls.

“It was to be like, make sure the audience is going to be attached and moved by those women,” Laurent instructed TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven as a part of the Toronto International Film Festival. “I wanted to be close to them and respect them and be sure that they will be important in the movie.”

“The Mad Women’s Ball” relies on a traditional French novel and is a couple of lady (Lou de Laâge) who has visions of spectral encounters and says she is visited by the lifeless however is shipped to a neurological establishment by her household. She finds there nonetheless that lots of the girls are victims of violence, who’re identified with hysteria or who’re there in opposition to their will.

So in telling that story, Laurent was lucky to get dozens of tapes of ladies with disabilities keen to seem in a film that mentioned variations and provides a feminist spin on the abuses typically seen in asylum life.

“I wanted to make an homage to all those women and make sure the audience is going to love them instead of judge them,” Laurent mentioned. “‘I feel very beautiful and I just want you to film me, and I want you to put me in a movie that’s going to talk about difference and how we’re seen as the crazy ones when we’re not.’ I thought that was so amazing, and they brought so much in the movie.”

“The Mad Women’s Ball” screened at TIFF on Monday. Check out TheWrap’s full interview with Laurent above.