This Life of Mine

This Life of Mine (2024)

Ma vie ma gueule

Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities.

Date of release
2024-09-18
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Sophie Fillières

Casting

Interesting facts

This Life of Mine is a 2024 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Sophie Fillières. It was Fillières's final film after her death in 2023.

Production

This Life of Mine is the seventh feature directed by Sophie Fillières, who died in July 2023 shortly after completing the shoot of the film. She was hospitalised after the shoot and realised she would not survive the illness. She asked Agathe and Adam Bonitzer, her children with Pascal Bonitzer, and her producer Julie Salvador to oversee the post-production.

Fillières wrote the film's screenplay five years earlier. In the production notes, she insisted that the protagonist Barbie was not autobiographical in nature. However, the lead actress Agnès Jaoui commented that she often felt that she was portraying Fillières. During the production, she was made to wear the director's own clothes and her rings. The role of the therapist was portrayed the Fillières's real-life psychologist of 30 years.

Salvador produced the film through her Paris-based company Christmas in July.

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