Strong woman Louise Wimmer has lost everything. She does not seek compassion because she can stand up for herself. She is fighting for her place in the sun and trying to find a way out of difficult situations, which every day becomes more and more.
Louise Wimmer can do anything but ask for help. Exorbitant pride, taken to the extreme, mixed with a passionate desire to live as a human being, makes Louise perform small heroic deeds every day.
The image of Louise Wimmer to the director of the film Cyril Meneghan was inspired by her mother and her friends, who for a time lived in prosperity until their husbands left them. At the age of fifty, these women were left without money and without their status.
In this film, many details are thought out to the smallest detail. For example, the “second main character” of the picture – Louise’s car is like a continuation of the heroine’s personality, it is slightly damaged, but still has not lost its former beauty.
Stuck disc, which always begins with the voice of Nina Simone, the singer, who, like Louise, always seems to “rise” above everyone in her songs, and the “bad record” with her songs personifies the vicious circle of Louise’s problems.
Yes, and the film would not have turned out so real and true without the actress who played the main role – Corin Masiero. The director was looking for her Louise Wimmer for a long time, until she saw Corinne in a TV movie, where her character was driving and laughing unrestrained ... and Cyril immediately realized that this was her Louise Wimmer.
Critic favorites and Cannes Festival winners Jean-Pierre and Luke Dardenne made the film “Two Days, One Night” (Deux jours, une nuit) with Marion Cotillard in the title role, where her career depends on the decision of colleagues at work. In this film, the Dardenne brothers also explore the problem of the “little man” who finds himself in a difficult life situation. In my opinion, the language of the film “Louise Wimmer” is more simple and natural for the viewer than the acclaimed painting of the Dardennes, and the emotional presentation is stronger and more expressive.