Abstract
What a strange thing it is to have as a profession that of acting ! While theater addresses a collective body, present here and now, in a form that will never be reproduced identically, cinema seeks to create the intimate, reproduced and diffused ad infinitum. Yet the actor and actress are often the same, each drawing on the other, as confirmed here by Éric Ruf and Isabelle Nanty.
Isabelle Nanty
After her studies at the Cours Florent, where she also taught, Isabelle Nanty embarked on a fruitful career in film, television and theater as an actress, screenwriter, director and stage director. In 1997, she appeared in Du désavantage du vent under the direction ofÉricRuf, whom she had previously taught. From that moment on, the two artists became close friends, sharing a taste for the literature of their Nordic origins. Isabelle Nanty directed her first play in 1990, Ibsen's A Doll's House, followed by Chekhov's The Seagull, Nijinsky's Diary and Schnitzler's La Ronde. In 2017, she staged her first Feydeau with L'Hôtel du Libre-échange at the Comédie-Française. Also much in demand as a director of one-man and one-woman shows, she never ceases to elude those who imagine pigeonholing her.
