“An intimate ambition”, on M6: Karine Le Marchand especially causes discomfort – Télérama.fr

This Sunday, for a special and “feminist” number of her magazine, the host played the confidant of Marine Le Pen, Anne Hidalgo, Valérie Pécresse, Rachida Dati and Marlène Schiappa. And it was embarrassing.

Five women politicians for a unique and feminist program. That was the magazine’s promise An intimate ambition, broadcast on Sunday, November 7 in the evening in prime time and presented by Karine Le Marchand. The host of Love is in the meadow interviewed, in order of appearance: Marine Le Pen, Anne Hidalgo, Valérie Pécresse, Rachida Dati and Marlène Schiappa. Three presidential candidates, the mayor of the 7th^e arrondissement of Paris and the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship. The concept ? “Kill the clichés that systematically frame their reputation and really discover which woman is hiding behind the shell they must have created for themselves. ” So to better break the shell, we adopt a relaxed tone and we call each other by his usual first name. We unroll the portrait of the interviewee who can see, via a tablet, the praise and confidences of relatives, family, companions, colleagues, and Nicolas Sarkozy (as a guest). A program “Who is not an activist, warns Karine Le Marchand, but these bare words will perhaps be able to make a definite change ”.

In short, a good com campaign for five ambitious women, all in control or almost. It should be noted that Anne, Valérie, Rachida and Marlène gave themselves up to their place of work (the program was recorded during the summer) while Marine asked for a RTT and preferred to invite Karine to the house. It must be said that the two women know each other since the leader of the National Rally had already had the honor of the show five years ago.

So much for the decor, room for confidences. With Marine Le Pen who, from the outset, prefers to warn that she is modest. “We wanted to know how the last five years have built you as a politician and as a woman, and it was not five years with your legs in the sun”, asks Karine. A quick tablet and summary of the five-year term, and we find the boss of the RN sowing and picking in her garden (an allegory?) In the middle of her cats. “Miss good humor” also tells us that all worries remain outside and that here it is laughter, family and sharing. A large house a little empty after the flight of the children where she has been welcoming Ingrid, a roommate friend, for five years “Who was going through a difficult period”.

Tea party in the garden

We Are Family (of the Sister Sledge) echoes in sound. “It’s super modern to live with a girlfriend”, enthuses Karine. We then come back to “The injuries of the candidate beaten in the second round in 2017”, after a failed debate which “She took a year to recover”, says Pierrette, the mother, who has become close again after being away for fifteen years. “Do you feel like a phoenix?” “ Karine tries. We go on to a tea party in the garden. “Marine has become the head of the family”, adds the mother surrounded by Marie-Caroline, the sister, a niece and Ingrid, who baked a cake. “No man in this house, even the cats are females”, has fun Marine Le Pen, sticking well to the theme. “What a family anyway! “ slips from his side the host after the reminder of the annoyance with the father.

Karine still talks a little bit about work: “I am told that you are working hard on your files?” “, “Do you put the social front? “, “Are you introducing yourself for the third time, is it almost Christlike your thing?” “, Where “Where do you stand between the left and the right?” “… We don’t really know where to go. Embarrassment took over. “Thank you Karine, we will do the third for my second term”, quips Marine Le Pen.

Then place Anne Hidalgo who receives at the Town Hall for a more classic interview. Recorded before she declares her candidacy for the presidential election, the mayor of Paris insists on her Parisian record and, green helmet on her head, does not sulk her pleasure in taking the rue de Rivoli by bike. On the personal side, the angle chosen is the family story, that of an Andalusian grandfather forced into exile to escape Francoism. The sister tells about childhood, the mother confides in Spanish her pride. We just learned “That she sings really well and that she never loses the opportunity to dance”. Side private life, some confidences with his companion, the politician Jean-Marc Germain (PS, ex-deputy of Hauts-de-Seine) and former dir cab of Delanoë. A relationship hidden for two years. “You are ‘poker face’ whenever you want”, Karine has fun. Since then, Jean-Marc and Anne walk in the street, holding hands or admire a sunset in Andalusia (two sequence shots). “She’s a brilliant politician,” slips Jean-Marc who defines himself as “hyper-feminist”: “I cook and shop. “

Political questions? “Are you unshakeable in your convictions?” “, “Do you believe in polls? “, “They say you are authoritarian because you do not let go? “ Thank you Karine.

Overplayed photo-novel

For Valérie Pécresse, it takes place on the sofa of her brand new office in the Region (Île-de-France). “This is the first time that she has opened the doors to her privacy. “ There, we border the photo novel with the dad, the husband, the children and a part of overplayed Trivial Pursuit. Valérie answers the literature question (she loves books) and we laugh happily around the table. “I really like board games, but I’m a bad player. “ The right-wing primary candidate would like to end this image “Of the Versailles bourgeoisie of the right”. “Do you no longer live in Versailles?” “ retorts Karine, almost aggressive on this one. Yes, and she was born in Neuilly, “Like François Hollande” !

We then discover his passions: cheese (“My antidepressant”), the bike rides in her second home, where she can be herself, and, of course, work, always work. The speakers, chosen with care, underline its total commitment. Among them, Jean-Paul Huchon, his socialist predecessor, who is full of praise, or Elina Dumont, ex-SDF who piloted a file on exclusion for the Region. “We should more often entrust files to those who know life, not to those out of school and disconnected”, Karine allows herself. ” Absoutely “, nods the Enarque, also a graduate of HEC.

Political question: “You have a magnificent course, but how do you intend to lead France? “

Rachida Dati arrives after the commercial break and at one late hour. Too bad, because she is undoubtedly the one who has worked the most on her portrait. Modest like all the others, she invited her family and a few friends for a trip in the footsteps of her childhood with a visit to the old family HLM apartment. “She provokes fate”, insists the commentary, recalling the modest and foreign origins of the former Minister of Justice. “Dignity through work is an important word in this family”, emphasizes Karine Le Marchand. Rachida then recounts her social rise and makes the rounds of her mentors, from Simone Veil to Albin Chalandon, not to mention Nicolas Sarkozy, who does not fail to recall that he trusted her. On the private side, she evokes this arranged family marriage which she had trouble getting rid of, the racism that did not spare her and “The many blows received”. His daughter too “With which it is fusional”. We then see her going around the traders of 7^e district, where she “Lives with people who love him”. A portrait while mastering self made woman, go-getter, capable of provoking anger, “But it’s because I want it to go fast”. Political question: “Why, with your story, are you not on the left?” “

Last guest at the end of the night, Marlène Schiappa, the youngest, 38 years old. ” You are there girl next door of political life “, begins Karine Le Marchand, who expedites the case more quickly. Simpler, the CV is shorter. So we focus more on feminism, normally the common thread of the show. The former Secretary of State in charge of equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination insists on some important principles and the excesses of a society in terms of parity. A saving reminder although late. Then comes the privacy passage. “How are you brought up when you have two Communist parents? “ asks Karine. Marlène, who thought that “Marx and Trotsky were friends of the family”, delivers some childhood memories in Belleville “Where it was not always easy”. Then comes exile in Le Mans, a blog (“Maman works”) and her debut in politics as deputy mayor. And this is the meeting (Emmanuel Macron): “Finally someone who spoke my language and to people of my generation. “

Reality show ?

There follows a sequence in the forest where Marlène and her husband come back to the couple’s difficulties in reconciling family life and politics. Again this feeling of being too much. We are no longer very far from reality TV.

Political question: “Did they want to make the revolution, your parents?” “

Two and forty hours later, clap end. “I am extremely proud to have made this show, thank you all for trusting me”, concludes Karine Le Marchand, also co-director and producer of the program. The guests had the opportunity to come back to their words before the editing, she says. She announced that she wanted to humanize these women and show that they were not “Cold or hysterical monsters”. Mission accomplished. Well beyond, no doubt, the expectations of the interested parties.