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Sarah Bernhardt, la Divine (2024)

Drama | 98 minutes
2,88 4 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 98 minuten

Alternative title: The Divine Sarah Bernhardt

Country: France

Directed by: Guillaume Nicloux

Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte and Pauline Étienne

IMDb score: 6,3 (510)

Releasedate: 18 December 2024

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Sarah Bernhardt, la Divine plot

"When passion transcends the stage, legend is born."

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantasy, Sarah Bernhardt tells us about the love story that has shaped her life.

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mrklm

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Sarah Bernhardt was one of the greatest actors of the 19th century and the first worldwide superstar at the end of that century. She was 70 years old when she lost her right leg in 1915 due to an infection in her right knee (which she badly injured during a performance of 'La Tosca' in 1905). This biography is the moment for Sarah [Sandrine Kiberlain] to tell her son Sacha [Arthur Mazet] about the reasons for the rift between her and Sacha's father (and Sandra's regular co-star) Lucien [Laurent Lafitte]. The story jumps back and forth between 1915 and 1896, the year in which some friends organize a big party for her. We soon discover the more complex sides of Sarah's personality. The result is that a strong start is followed by a series of incidents that offer little new and therefore generate little interest, despite Kiberlain's convincing, flamboyant acting. The closing credits feature footage Sacha took of his mother in 1915.

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Roger Thornhill

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A picture, and a very convincing one at that – the beautiful costumes, the luxurious sets, and the general atmosphere give me the impression that I am truly in that world, or at least looking at that real world, with the caveat that I was not there at the time, of course, and so I can only think now (based on contemporary or modern reconstructions) that it might have been like that. The eye is therefore not shortchanged, but I have some reservations about the film's overall structure, because we get to know quite a few facets of Sarah Bernhardt's personality (both public and private) (ambitious theater producer, jealous lover, tyrannical employer, center of a salon-like côterie, socially engaged figure in the Dreyfus affair), and we see how famous contemporaries (Zola, Freud, Rostand) courted her favors, but ultimately she owes her great fame mainly to her acting talent and her countless stage roles, and unfortunately, we see none of that. French viewers may be more familiar with her stage career through her silent films and the many true and false stories circulating about her career, but I'm still left feeling somewhat unsatisfied. All praise, by the way, to lead actress Sandrine Kiberlain, who brings Bernhardt as close to the viewer as possible.

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