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Black is its color, the one that goes with everything. It is also that of death, which is at the heart of his latest film, “Paris Paradis”. In this City of Lights, where she has lived for almost thirty years now, and which still fascinates her, the Franco-Iranian director interweaves the destinies of several characters, directly or indirectly confronted with disappearance. Paris is only two letters less than paradise, as if this capital where we moan as we breathe bordered on an ideal of peace. Without ever reaching it…
For this artist who is as extroverted as she is discreet, free and well aware that everything has an end, in love with beauty and an inveterate smoker, you must of course enjoy life. If the subject of her eighth film – death to restore the taste for life – may seem a little short, it really resembles this woman who experienced exile at 14, when she left to study alone at the French high school from Vienna to Austria, then, ten years later, this time for good, in France… And who has never stopped renewing his means of expression: comics, painting, cinema and now tapestry!