Jehnny Beth talks about the importance of releasing sex workers from negative stereotypes on screen
. The film, shot in black and white and loosely based on comics by Adrian Tomine, follows the lives of four young people as they navigate, life, love and sex within the 13th arrondissement of Paris. “The way Jacques describes it is a film about love discourse,” Beth says. “The fact that in our times we sleep with people on the first night and if there is a conversation it happens after.
Jehnny Beth: I grew up in the French theatre world because my father was a theatre director. We went on tour in Russia when I was four and I was acting in his plays. There were always people at home – writers, actors, directors – and so that was fed to me as a kid. I did that movie [] at 17 which went to the New York Film Festival and I got an agent in Paris but she died of cancer.
There’s always this element of the lost child or an aggressive parent or something they escaped from, but actually the way the story is told between those four people is that she [Amber] is the only one who isn’t lost. She has found herself; she is confident with herself. She earns a living, she loves what she does and there’s this sort of stability about her. The others are often wrong about themselves or are looking for answers.
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