Laure Calamy Unveiled Like Never Before in “Mon Inséparable” – Must See!

What’s it About?

Mona lives with her thirty-something son, Joël, who is developmentally delayed. He works at a specialized agency, an ESAT, and is deeply in love with his coworker Océane, who is also disabled. Unaware of this relationship, Mona is shocked to learn that Océane is pregnant. This revelation shakes the close bond between mother and son.

Ending the year on a high note, Laure Calamy will be a familiar face for moviegoers. Following her role in the series “A Devoted Friend” on the Max platform and a film for Arte titled “I Won’t Be Pushed Around” directed by Gustave Kervern, and before the Coen Brothers-style thriller by Franck Dubosc (“A Bear in Jura,” hitting cinemas on January 1), the actress co-stars in “My Inseparable.” This moving drama features her as the mother of a young man with disabilities, Joël (portrayed by the outstanding Charles Peccia Galletto).

Selected for the Venice Film Festival (where Laure Calamy previously won an award for “Full Time”), the film delicately and accurately tackles tough topics seldom explored in cinema. “My Inseparable” particularly looks at disability through a unique lens, focusing on parent-child relationships and the connections we forge.

“Disability magnifies the complexity of parent-child relationships. The vulnerability of a child with disabilities heightens a parent’s fears, making detachment more challenging, creating resentment, and guilt on both sides—powerful drivers of fiction that exist in family relationships to varying degrees,” explains director Anne-Sophie Bailly in the press kit.

Giving true artistic space to ‘different’ protagonists

“A character’s disability doesn’t mean the story must focus solely on the disability; and giving true artistic space to ‘different’ protagonists means placing them at the heart of stories that move beyond the illness, a slowdown, or an impediment,”

The film is led by three remarkable actors: Laure Calamy, who shows a deeply touching side, and two young actors, both with disabilities, Charles Peccia Galletto and Julie Froger…

“It was not about imitating or acting disabled,” director Anne-Sophie Bailly notes. “Charles and Julie share traits with their characters, but they are not their characters. (…) No one can be reduced to their disability: all individuals in this situation do not think of themselves in the same way, and it can be incredibly delicate to untangle what is due to disability and what to personality.”

She continues, “For my part, I wanted to work knowing the disorders my characters suffered from and relate them to Charles and Julie, but at no point did I want to make a medical diagnosis in the film. That’s an oversight I did not want to have.”

Reality is so much stronger than anything we can imagine

For “My Inseparable,” the director conducted extensive research, including spending time at the Menilmontant ESAT in Paris. “Reality is so much stronger than anything we can imagine… In this Menilmontant center, I met a young man with Down syndrome who dressed incredibly. Had I filmed that, I would have been accused of exaggerating…”

“My Inseparable” by Anne-Sophie Bailly, featuring Laure Calamy, Charles Peccia Galletto, and Julie Froger, is in cinemas this Wednesday.