“Adam’s Sake”, interview with actress and Shooting Star 2022 Anamaria Vartolomei

May 16, 2025

Anamaria Vartolomei: “to be a European actor to me it means being also nourished by other cultures, other societies, other forms of living and I feel all that makes us grow as humans and make us grow as actors too”

“Adam’s Sake”, interview with actress and Shooting Star 2022 Anamaria Vartolomei Chiara Nicoletti

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Belgian director Laura Wandel is back in Cannes with her second feature film, Adam’s sake.

The film, in competition at the Semaine de la critique, relies entirely on two extraordinary protagonists Léa Drucker and Anamaria Vartolomei, playing respectively a nurse and a young mother whose child has been hospitalized for malnutrition.

Anamaria Vartolomei, who became well known to the international audience thanks to the 2021 Venice Golden Lion’s winner L’Événement, was selected to represent France at the 2022 Berlinale Shooting stars.

In collaboration with the European Film promotion (EFP), founder of the Shooting stars programme, we interviewed Anamaria Vartolomei, among the 16 former Shooting Stars in the Cannes line-up this year.

The EFP is a network of film institutions from 37 European countries, bringing European films and talent to the attention of the international industry and media and the Shooting stars project brings ten promising, versatile European acting newcomers to the Berlin International Film Festival each year.

Ana Vartolomei tells us about her memories from that Berlinale 2022 and how she enriched her experience as an actress while sharing it with colleagues from other countries.

What does it mean to be an European actor? “it means being also nourished by other cultures, other societies, other forms of living and I feel all that makes us grow as humans and make us grow as actors too” declares Vartolomei.

Plot

Following a court ruling, four-year-old Adam is hospitalized for malnutrition. Lucy, he head nurse, allows Adam’s mother to stay past the court-mandated visiting hours. Complications ensue when the mother, once again, refuses to leave her son’s bedside. For the sake of the child, Lucy will do anything to help this mother in distress.

Written by: Chiara Nicoletti

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Anamaria Vartolomei