In memory of Ronit Elkabetz

Photo Credit by Le Monde

I am really shocked by the news of Ronit Elkabetz’s death.
Only 51 years old, this actress and film-maker from Israel was an intelligent, powerful, strong, interesting, beautiful woman who had still so much to give to cinema and life. 
This is utterly unfair.
I have fallen in love with her watching the movie Les mains libres by Brigitte Sy (2010) and I was absolutely crazy about the three movies she wrote and directed with her brother Schlomi, in particular about Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, one of the best films of 2014.
Very recently, she was on Arte in the TV series Trepalium, where she was playing a cold, badass and super elegant Prime Minister.
That low and sexy voice, that burning black eyes, that long black hair… She was amazing.
I thought, once again, how much I loved her and how much we needed women like her in this world.
It really, really sucks that she is not with us anymore.