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I've wanted to work with Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi for many years. When she was at Nanterre at Patrice Chéreau's school I was at Chaillot at Antoine Vitez's school. I saw her from afar. I wanted to work with her. And then once in Chéreau's Rêve d'automne at the Théâtre de la Ville. It was clear that I wanted to work with her. And then in fact her films too. All her films. And the last one I saw on a plane coming back from Mexico made me say to myself that she's like a sister to the stories she writes and that I write. So we got together and decided to do this: I'm going to write a declaration of love by a daughter for her mother. Her mother is her real mother. Marisa Borini. She's the one who plays the piano on a large Bosendorfer between her daughter's silences. It is to her that the words are addressed. And it's Valéria who lives them.