Seule comme Maria

Narbonnaise Marilou Aussilloux pays tribute to an actress a few years her senior, Maria Schneider. In this one-woman show in the form of a rehearsal open to the public, she exposes the difficulties she encounters in her attempt to stage a show around this famous actress.

In this tête-à-tête written with Théo Askolovitch, she reveals herself and takes us as her witness. With a great deal of humor and self-mockery, Marilou Aussilloux explains that she sometimes makes mistakes, fails big time, and feels like giving up, wondering at times why she ever embarked on such a project in the first place. From confidences to digressions, Maria Schneider's career is traversed, her beginnings in cinema, her charisma, her rape by Marlon Brando, the affection she found with Brigitte Bardot.

Drawing on interviews from the period, Marilou Aussilloux attempts to rehabilitate the voice of one whom the 7th art crushed. And with a subtle play, as if in a mirror, the actress lifts the veil on her trajectory and her own wounds. She denounces the fact that sexist attitudes still exist, but she remains hopeful nonetheless, full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit to fulfill herself in the theater and in life.