Once I realized that French actress Noémie Lvovsky was in several period films, I had to immediately go track down whatever else she’d done! I’m a completionist, what can I say. Lvovsky has directed and been nominated for 13 César awards (the French Oscar), so I think it’s time to take a look!
She’ll be co-starring in the upcoming film Duse (2025), a biopic about Italian stage actress Eleonora Duse and her work between World War I and the rise of facsism.
Nastasie in A Simple Heart (2008)
A French feature film adaptation of an 1877 Flaubert story, in which a maid searches for unconditional love.
Marie-France in House of Tolerance (2011)
The lives of prostitutes at an elegant Parisian brothel at the turn of the century.
Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan in Farewell, My Queen (2012)
Mme Campan was a key attendant to French Queen Marie-Antoinette.
Yvonne Delvaux in Chocolat (2016)
Nope, not the film you’re thinking of! This one was a biopic of the first black clown in France beginning in 1886.
Solange in One Nation, One King (2018)
She played a lower-class revolutionary in this film about the French Revolution.
Marie-Thérèse in How to Be a Good Wife (2020)
A woman runs a “housekeeping” school but things get complicated when her husband dies.
Madame Adeline in Scarlet (2022)
“The emancipation of a woman over twenty years, between 1919 and 1939, a time of great inventions and great dreams” per IMDB.
La Comtesse de Noailles in Jeanne du Barry (2023)
She played Marie-Antoinette’s dame d’honneur (the one nicknamed “Madame Etiquette”) in this biopic about Louis XV’s mistress.
Madame de La Fayette in Madame de Sévigné (2023)
She played the real-life Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, friend to the titular Mme de Sévigné and author of The Princess of Cleves.
Which of Noémie Lvovsky’s frock flicks roles is most notable for you?
I had seen her name but have never seen her movies. What an interesting and expressive face, so un-Hollywood. Now I’m going to look for one of these historical movies – ‘Mme de Sévigné’ sounds good from your review.