Victoire Thivisol
Victoire Thivisol (born 6 July 1991) is a French actress.
Biography
Victoire Thivisol was discovered by the French film director Jacques Doillon, who entrusted the then four- year-olds the title role in his film Ponette. The drama is about a same age child who is faced with the death of his mother (played by Marie Trintignant ). In a car accident caused by the mother died this while Ponette comes with a shock and a broken arm it. The girl then expires in deep sorrow and begins excited by their devout aunt to lead dialogues with God and ask him for her mother's return. Rated by filmdienst as sensitive as highly artificial drama of the soul, " is seen largely in the from (camera ) perspective of a child from a world that is not just for kids so hard to understand ," experienced Ponette its world premiere at the 1996 Film Festival Venice. There Doillon film won many awards, including with the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress Victoire Thivisol that against such established actresses like Julia Roberts (Michael Collins) or Isabella Rossellini ( The funeral ) was able to prevail. The decision to award the Best Actor award of a five year old who already earned at the awards ceremony by jury president Roman Polanski catcalls from the audience. Although just had voted in the jury for Thivisol the actors and Doillon, who accepted the award in the absence of its main actress, insured, without their own desires and their joy they would not have been this wonderful actress who sparked the recent Coppa Volpi winner in the the History of Film Festival of Venice from a debate on the use of child actors in the film. Thus, the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote, two days after the conclusion of the film festival that does not actually real joy would come to Thivisols award, " because it probably was rather the performance of the director to bring a bunch of small, very small children to in front of the camera with this naturalness lyrics about life and death and what comes after that to give of yourself. "
With the release of Ponette in theaters but the debate waned and the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the film in her two years later appearing criticism as " magnificent portrait with a great little actress ," while the daily newspaper as well as the natural representation Thivisols considered and their game with the award-winning Emily Watson in Lars von Trier's drama Breaking the Waves compared. The range of their emotions was broad and differentiated and never wear them on thick. " She learns from the mother's death, she moves in front of her lower lip, fighting back tears. Says the father, "God does not talk a long time with the living. It is for the dead, not for us ", then press view and posture an ambivalent emotion between defiance, affection, resignation and a cry for help, "says the film critic Katja Stiegel. Ponette became a critical and popular success and also had a successful run in the American cinema. The New York Times rated Thivisols representation as the "heart of the film" and it was in 1998 with the Young Artist Award, while Doillon's film won the Prize of the New York Film Critics Circles as best foreign film production.
After her successful acting debut three years should elapse before Victoire Thivisol was seen again in one feature film. In 1999 she appeared in a small supporting role in Diane Kurys ' historical film The love story of Venice at the opposite Juliette Binoche. The part of Binoche movie daughter she repeated a year later in Lasse Hallström's multiple Oscar-nominated comedy drama Chocolat - A small bite is enough, but again, they could in the ensemble to Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Carrie- Anne Moss and Lena Olin hardly put acting accents. In the following years, who grew up in Paris actress from the movie screen disappeared and also rejected the offer to participate in a music video of the French rock band Superbus. Only in 2005 did Thivisol again as an actress attracted attention with a small supporting role in the French TV film Le Bal des célibataires. Three years later, she took over in Emmanuel Sagets feature film Les Grands s'allongent par terre (2008), the main role of a 15 - year-old girl that makes the search for the unknown to her father. In the following years performances followed in the short films Tous les chats sont gris ( la nuit ) (2009, directed by Savina Dellicour ) and Le Ventre de Jonas (2010, directed by Emmanuel Saget ).