Spotlight on Virginie Efira

Born in Belgium and today largely based in Paris, Virginie Efira’s path to Best Actress plaudits at Cannes—shared with co-star Tao Okamoto—for her role in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden was anything but overnight. Beginning her screen career with news anchor gigs and voiceover work, she had a breakthrough year in 2016 with roles in Justine Triet’s In Bed with Victoria and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, and hasn’t looked back since, becoming one of the most in-demand and lauded actresses in the Francophone world, reunions with Triet (on Sibyl) and Verhoeven (on Benedetta) among high points in a career that doubtless has many more to come. Join us in welcoming to Metrograph a performer equally effective in tempestuous emotion and gelid restraint, and one of the premier talents of her generation.