An interview with Virginie Efira, member of the international jury at the Marrakech IFF

A very spirited Mamounia-set interview with actress Virginie Efira, member of the international jury of the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival. After enthusing about the first and second feature competition and what she is sharing with her fellow-jury members discussing the films vying for the Golden Star ("an intimacy" that manifests "without sharing anything about your intimacy"), the Belgian thespian reveals a few details about a new movie reuniting her with Rebecca Zlotowski ("Vie privée"), also starring Jodie Foster.  Efira also discusses the recently increased presence of females voices in the French film industry, and then goes on to explain that it is not so much a character that represented a turning point in her career as it was an encounter – with Justine Triet when the acclaimed French director cast her in "Victoria".    She reminisces about the time before she became a renowned actress, and about some of the films which opened her mind when she was young, from "Mary Poppins" to Zhang Yimou's "Raise the Red Lantern", her first encounter with that "something else that makes you realise that the world is bigger than you know" being own to Martin Scorsese's ability to make a teenage girl identify with a tormented boxer.