Valérie Karsenti in the TV movie La Fugue. – Hassen BRAHITI / FTV
- This Wednesday, France 2 is planning a continuous evening on the theme “Fugue teenagers: parents’ nightmare”. The TV movie La Fugue will be broadcast at 21 h 05 before a debate on the stage at 22 h 40.
- In Fugue, Valérie Karsenti plays a mother whose teenage daughter disappears overnight.
On average, some 150 minors run away every day in France. “The numbers are unimaginable!” Valérie Karsenti warns. There are a lot of taboos about the suffering of children and adolescents in France. Nobody talks about it. “
In La Fugue , Jeanne is confronted with the disappearance of her teenage daughter. Xavier Durringer broadcast this Wednesday at 20 h 05 sure France 2 tells the story of the frantic and anguished quest of this mother ready to move heaven and earth to find her child.
“It’s a pretty brutal scenario, very refined ”, slide to 05 Minutes Valérie Karsenti who embodies this heroine and carries this fiction on her shoulders. In the city, the actress is the mother of two teenagers, but there is no question for her to say if this role had a particular resonance on this private part of her life. “It’s modesty but I don’t find that interesting either,” she sweeps away.
“The numbers are unimaginable! “
To compose her character, she did not try to get in touch with parents of young people runaways . “I didn’t want to be inundated with information that I wasn’t supposed to have,” she says. So she put herself in Jeanne’s shoes by discovering all along: “the impotence of the minors’ brigade, the hallucinatory number of disappearances of minors every day” … In the note of intent, the statistics of 40. runaway teenagers identified in 1085 is advanced.
“The numbers are unimaginable! », Continues Valérie Karsenti. “I am godmother of the Blue Child, an association that takes care of mistreated adolescence,” she continues. I realize that there are a lot of taboos about the suffering of children and adolescents in France. Whether it is abuse, running away, suicide … Nobody talks about it. It’s too bad. I am overwhelmed by this. They are left to fend for themselves in great solitude. “
“A largely autobiographical scenario” The teenager who disappears in La Fugue
is not mistreated, nor suicidal. “She is under enormous pressure, especially because of social networks. It is the world that she is building that collapses, summarizes Valérie Karsenti. Her parents are average people, they are neither perfect nor shit, but they do not see anything coming and do not perceive the grief, the pain, the isolation of their daughter. “
The scenario is co-signed by Mikael Ollivier and Olga Vincent. “I say it because she authorized me, it is a scenario with a large autobiographical part, affirms the actress. Olga did not need to collect many testimonies from parents because she lived it. She surrounded herself with the advice of
psychiatrist Xavier Pommereau , whose life is devoted to this period so wonderful and special but also fragile. “
AT 22 h 22, in the wake of the dissemination of this fiction, Valérie Karsenti and Xavier Pommereau will be on the stage of the debate moderated by Julian Bugier. The theme of this evening continues: “Fugue teenagers: the parents’ struggle”. The opportunity to openly discuss a subject that bruises thousands of families every year.