Clotilde Hesme was initially an evanescent shadow, an elegant and ethereal silhouette running through the streets of a retro and romantic Paris. It was in 2005, in The regular lovers of Philippe Garrel. She played the companion of Louis Garrel, a beautiful young woman with bangs sublimated by black and white film. Since then, we have often met again the actress, become a sort of muse of the cinema of authors ( Christophe Honoré , Raoul Ruiz ...), before losing a little of sight, then to find her as a nurse slightly lost in the arm of Omar Sy in the comedy Chocolate.

"The image of the chic and cerebral girl has long stuck to my skin. I am more clown than we think. One day someone said to me, "You're funny actually." I said yes, in life I was in color, not in black and white. "A confession that confirms his turbulent interpretation of a surrogate mother in Diane has the shoulders of Fabien Gorgeart: the story of a young woman who agreed to carry the future child of a couple of homosexual friends.

A hero ï not manly

"Diane is not a victim or a martyr. His gesture is not associated with a sacrifice. She is not paid to do it either. Her pregnancy is an act of love and friendship that will have consequences but not those we believe. The film never judges her, he questions a vertigo. "

A contemporary reflection on motherhood and the filial bond (what makes us feel like parents, what place does biology hold?), Diane has shoulders explores in parallel the vast feminine field through this virile heroine, gaffeuse, milk and proud soup, which sometimes looks like a big lanky teenager lost in the body of a pregnant woman. The 38-year-old actress, who graduated at the Conservatoire, says she "long ago apologized for being a girl. I already had two big sisters, and my parents wanted a boy. Throughout the pregnancy they called me Antoine ".

Finally, Antoine did not point his nose, nor even Antoinette, but Clotilde, a sacred, funny, graceful and powerful young woman who lives in this film as a "Bruce Willis of surrogacy". Some images were shot while she was waiting for her first child. "It was a way to put my pregnancy at the heart of my work. Actresses sometimes have to put their careers in brackets from the moment they choose to be mothers. I wanted to do the opposite. Clotilde really has her shoulders.

"Diane has the shoulders" of Fabien Gorgeart, also with Fabrizio Rongione, Thomas Suire, released on November 15th.