ABOUT THE FILM “SALOPE JE T’AIME”

The sketch film Salope je t’aime is a daring project.
Through several short stories, the film questions the way women are looked at, judged, desired, insulted, loved.

The title, deliberately frontal, takes up a violent word in order to turn it around, question it and reclaim it.

Each sketch offers a singular point of view, carried by a different woman director, on the body, language, desire, shame and freedom.

They chose to play with this provocative title in an era when every word is scrutinised under close watch.
The approach consists in exploring short stories of between

8 and 10 minutes that combine humour, emotion and observations on society, on class and generational relationships.

After Salauds de pauvres, Frédéric Marboeuf wanted to continue in the same iconoclastic vein and to “have fun with the idea of the ‘salope’ in cinema”, a term often associated with men, but here reclaimed by women artists.

The nod to the “343 salopes” manifesto of the 1970s, whose signatories campaigned for the legalisation of abortion, adds a historical and feminist dimension to the project.

Each woman director brings her unique view of our changing society, creating a kaleidoscope of themes: the couple, the family, friendship and much more... Like this woman and this man who play cops and robbers and lose themselves in the limits between the public and private spheres, the confrontation of two generations in Bijoux de famille, or this young woman struggling through the #MeToo period.

A journey through several universes that leads us to this man afflicted with coprolalia, whose tics make him say “Salope” in the most awkward situations, ruining his whole life until the day things are reversed...

Salope je t’aime is an essential breath of fresh air, where humour and the unexpected are summoned in order to better question and affirm the place of women in a world still too often masculine, but without Manichaeism, simplism or first-degree “slogans”.

This film is a rich and committed cinematic experience, carried by strong female voices.

Charles DUBOIS