Julie Delpy is an anomaly in the movie world. The now 51-year-old French actress experienced her greatest public success in the beforetrilogy by director Richard Linklater, for which she rewrote most of the dialogues with co-star Ethan Hawke – initially this went unmentioned and it still stings her.
Delpy speaks out. Ever since she had a #MeToo moment with a director in Paris at the age of 13, she has openly struggled with the norms of her profession: that actresses should be quiet, that they should strategically sleep with male celebrities, that they should should not get wrinkles or rolls of fat. She’s not in on it.
Nevertheless, she manages to get personal projects off the ground with admirable persistence: she has written and directed six feature films.
On The VergeDelpy’s first series, is about four friends in Los Angeles in the age when women usually become ‘invisible’: over 45 and therefore not a nice young thing anymore, but not yet a wise old lady or grandmother. In fact, they have children around the age of twelve.
In the meantime, they are making a career, or at least they are trying to: Anne (Elizabeth Shue) designs clothes and tries to stay out of the clutches of her wealthy mother, Justine (Julie Delpy) is a chef and combines running a restaurant with taking care of her. family. Especially Martin, her husband who moved from France, is a jealous and demanding mutt – thanks to actor Mathieu Demy you are mainly there to chuckle at him, but what a terrible partner he is.
The men in On the Verge don’t come off very well in general – big credit to the actors who throw themselves into their sleazy, slightly autistic or downright childish characters without any vanity. Justine’s sex-addicted business partner Jerry (Giovanni Ribisi) and Anne’s ten-year-younger, vaguely muddling husband George (Troy Garity) aren’t bad people, but they aren’t much use either – Delpy excels at lightly tackling current confusion in many marriages.
Corona is also processed in the series with comic pinpricks: in one episode Justine loses her sense of taste and smell to her fury, while arch pessimist Martin is already walking around with hand disinfectant because of the approaching danger. The series ends where the pandemic begins, which makes very curious for a sequel. Hopefully producer CanalPlus will take another step and Delpy can continue writing.
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 18, 2021
Julie Delpy is an anomaly in the movie world. The now 51-year-old French actress experienced her greatest public success in the beforetrilogy by director Richard Linklater, for which she rewrote most of the dialogues with co-star Ethan Hawke – initially this went unmentioned and it still stings her.
Delpy speaks out. Ever since she had a #MeToo moment with a director in Paris at the age of 13, she has openly struggled with the norms of her profession: that actresses should be quiet, that they should strategically sleep with male celebrities, that they should should not get wrinkles or rolls of fat. She’s not in on it.
Nevertheless, she manages to get personal projects off the ground with admirable persistence: she has written and directed six feature films.
On The VergeDelpy’s first series, is about four friends in Los Angeles in the age when women usually become ‘invisible’: over 45 and therefore not a nice young thing anymore, but not yet a wise old lady or grandmother. In fact, they have children around the age of twelve.
In the meantime, they are making a career, or at least they are trying to: Anne (Elizabeth Shue) designs clothes and tries to stay out of the clutches of her wealthy mother, Justine (Julie Delpy) is a chef and combines running a restaurant with taking care of her. family. Especially Martin, her husband who moved from France, is a jealous and demanding mutt – thanks to actor Mathieu Demy you are mainly there to chuckle at him, but what a terrible partner he is.
The men in On the Verge don’t come off very well in general – big credit to the actors who throw themselves into their sleazy, slightly autistic or downright childish characters without any vanity. Justine’s sex-addicted business partner Jerry (Giovanni Ribisi) and Anne’s ten-year-younger, vaguely muddling husband George (Troy Garity) aren’t bad people, but they aren’t much use either – Delpy excels at lightly tackling current confusion in many marriages.
Corona is also processed in the series with comic pinpricks: in one episode Justine loses her sense of taste and smell to her fury, while arch pessimist Martin is already walking around with hand disinfectant because of the approaching danger. The series ends where the pandemic begins, which makes very curious for a sequel. Hopefully producer CanalPlus will take another step and Delpy can continue writing.
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 18, 2021
Julie Delpy is an anomaly in the movie world. The now 51-year-old French actress experienced her greatest public success in the beforetrilogy by director Richard Linklater, for which she rewrote most of the dialogues with co-star Ethan Hawke – initially this went unmentioned and it still stings her.
Delpy speaks out. Ever since she had a #MeToo moment with a director in Paris at the age of 13, she has openly struggled with the norms of her profession: that actresses should be quiet, that they should strategically sleep with male celebrities, that they should should not get wrinkles or rolls of fat. She’s not in on it.
Nevertheless, she manages to get personal projects off the ground with admirable persistence: she has written and directed six feature films.
On The VergeDelpy’s first series, is about four friends in Los Angeles in the age when women usually become ‘invisible’: over 45 and therefore not a nice young thing anymore, but not yet a wise old lady or grandmother. In fact, they have children around the age of twelve.
In the meantime, they are making a career, or at least they are trying to: Anne (Elizabeth Shue) designs clothes and tries to stay out of the clutches of her wealthy mother, Justine (Julie Delpy) is a chef and combines running a restaurant with taking care of her. family. Especially Martin, her husband who moved from France, is a jealous and demanding mutt – thanks to actor Mathieu Demy you are mainly there to chuckle at him, but what a terrible partner he is.
The men in On the Verge don’t come off very well in general – big credit to the actors who throw themselves into their sleazy, slightly autistic or downright childish characters without any vanity. Justine’s sex-addicted business partner Jerry (Giovanni Ribisi) and Anne’s ten-year-younger, vaguely muddling husband George (Troy Garity) aren’t bad people, but they aren’t much use either – Delpy excels at lightly tackling current confusion in many marriages.
Corona is also processed in the series with comic pinpricks: in one episode Justine loses her sense of taste and smell to her fury, while arch pessimist Martin is already walking around with hand disinfectant because of the approaching danger. The series ends where the pandemic begins, which makes very curious for a sequel. Hopefully producer CanalPlus will take another step and Delpy can continue writing.
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 18, 2021
Julie Delpy is an anomaly in the movie world. The now 51-year-old French actress experienced her greatest public success in the beforetrilogy by director Richard Linklater, for which she rewrote most of the dialogues with co-star Ethan Hawke – initially this went unmentioned and it still stings her.
Delpy speaks out. Ever since she had a #MeToo moment with a director in Paris at the age of 13, she has openly struggled with the norms of her profession: that actresses should be quiet, that they should strategically sleep with male celebrities, that they should should not get wrinkles or rolls of fat. She’s not in on it.
Nevertheless, she manages to get personal projects off the ground with admirable persistence: she has written and directed six feature films.
On The VergeDelpy’s first series, is about four friends in Los Angeles in the age when women usually become ‘invisible’: over 45 and therefore not a nice young thing anymore, but not yet a wise old lady or grandmother. In fact, they have children around the age of twelve.
In the meantime, they are making a career, or at least they are trying to: Anne (Elizabeth Shue) designs clothes and tries to stay out of the clutches of her wealthy mother, Justine (Julie Delpy) is a chef and combines running a restaurant with taking care of her. family. Especially Martin, her husband who moved from France, is a jealous and demanding mutt – thanks to actor Mathieu Demy you are mainly there to chuckle at him, but what a terrible partner he is.
The men in On the Verge don’t come off very well in general – big credit to the actors who throw themselves into their sleazy, slightly autistic or downright childish characters without any vanity. Justine’s sex-addicted business partner Jerry (Giovanni Ribisi) and Anne’s ten-year-younger, vaguely muddling husband George (Troy Garity) aren’t bad people, but they aren’t much use either – Delpy excels at lightly tackling current confusion in many marriages.
Corona is also processed in the series with comic pinpricks: in one episode Justine loses her sense of taste and smell to her fury, while arch pessimist Martin is already walking around with hand disinfectant because of the approaching danger. The series ends where the pandemic begins, which makes very curious for a sequel. Hopefully producer CanalPlus will take another step and Delpy can continue writing.
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 18, 2021