“Visiting Hours”, an interview with director Patricia Mazuy

After "Bowling Saturn", French director Patricia Mazuy comes back with "Visiting Hours", which scrutinises playfully, yet with great social acumen, the unlikely alliance of two prisoners' wives with very different backgrounds

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French director Patricia Mazuy (Peaux de vache, Of Women and Horses, Bowling Saturn) tells us more about her 6th feature film, “Visiting Hours“ (La Prisonnière de Bordeaux), starring Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi as Alma and Mina, two prisoners’ wives on opposites sides of the sociocultural spectrum who find themselves unexpectedly united under the same roof, from a script initiated by Pierre Courrège and François Bégaudeau which she later boarded and completed. Visiting Hours just premiered in Cannes as part of the 56th Directors’ Fortnight.

We talk, amongst other things including the script and working with children, about her collaborating again with the iconic Huppert after The King’s Daughters (Saint-Cyr, 2000), about their approach to create the character of Alma, which relied heavily on costume, and about the combination with co-star Hafsia Herzi, whom she chose to physically transform for the role of Mina.

Patricia Mazuy also recounts how serendipidously she found the house around which the film revolves, and elaborates on the various, often sociologically intriguing spaces where she chose to place her characters.

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