Overview
- The French film La mujer más rica del mundo, directed by Thierry Klifa, reaches Spain after a Cannes 2025 premiere out of competition.
- The story draws on the scandal around L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt and her bond with photographer François‑Marie Banier, with Marina Foïs as the daughter and Laurent Lafitte as the photographer.
- Huppert says she did not mimic Bettencourt and instead shaped the character through class signals such as stance, dress, and hairstyle.
- A new review highlights themes of money’s pull and how it breeds distrust, ambition, manipulation, and power games.
- Bettencourt’s fortune was estimated near $36 billion before her 2017 death, setting the stakes for the legal battles that made the case a national headline in France.