Julie, itinéraire d’une enfant du siècle

“Julie-Andrée’s Hungarian father was a contortionist, her Basque mother, formerly a catch-wrestler, now teaches yoga. After living in the marginal world of fairground shows and cabaret, Julie was confined to a mental home, then admitted to the La Borde nursing home. Later on, she has modeled, written poetry and had a programme on Radio Nova. Now she is out of the tunnel, Julie refuses any form of sarcasm and wants, in her own way, to reinforce her links with a society for which she represents an authentic and fragile witness (…) The film is the result of our joint wishes, since Julie showed the same commitment to the project as I did as filmmaker (…) Envisaging a film capable of treating these documentary problems needed time. Not only in order to be as close as possible to the person filmed (…), but also in order to trace and organise a story, time for sedimentation, in the sense that “what is natural is chaotic”, as Arthur Schnitzler said.” (D. Gros)