Cannes Film Festival 2021: The Braves (Directors’ Fortnight) | Interview of Déborah Lukumuena

French actress Déborah Lukumuena is stunning, alongside Souheila Yacoub, in Anaïs Volpé’s Entre les vagues (The Braves), presented at the 2021 Directors’ Fortnight.

One of the highlights of our experience at the 74th Cannes Film Festival will definitely remain the screening of Entre les vagues (The Braves), directed by Anaïs Volpé, whose World Premiere took place at the Théâtre Croisette, as part of the Directors’ Fortnight, in presence of the film’s cast and crew. The intensity of a film dealing with a strong friendship grappling with life’s ups and downs, coupled with the emotion of the two main actresses (Souheila Yacoub and Déborah Lukumuena) discovering the feature for the first time, among the audience, ended up being the perfect ingredients for a memorable and powerful collective cinematic experience.

As the synopsis points out, in Entre les vagues (The Braves), Margot and Alma are two best friends holding on to the energy of their youth and their burning desire to conquer the world, until life gets in the way. But their ride-or-die friendship can get them through anything; they are inseparable, unstoppable.

We were lucky to sit down with Actress Déborah Lukumuena to chat about the screening of Entre les vagues (The Braves), as well as the experience of shooting an intensely emotional film, in the pandemic context, alongside her brilliant partner in the film, Souheila Yacoub.