Charlotte Gainsbourg said the most exciting thing about her role in the French romantic comedy “3 Coeurs” (“Three Hearts”), shown in Venice, was the chance to once again play Catherine Deneuve’s daughter, a role she had in her debut film when she was 12.

    Director Benoit Jacquot’s film is a love triangle* in which a tax auditor, played by Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, unwittingly* falls in love with two sisters, played by Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni.

    They also do not realize that they are in love with the same man because one sister lives in France and the other has moved to the United States.

    Playing the sister of Mastroianni, Deneuve’s real-life daughter, was the role’s biggest challenge, Gainsbourg told Reuters in an interview at the Venice Film Festival.

    She said she was forever fielding questions about the Danish director and that working with Jacquot had been a very different experience.

    “It’s funny how people always want me to compare someone with Lars. I get it, but Lars is very different,” she said.

    “3 Coeurs” is one of 20 films vying for the coveted Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, which runs through September 6.(SD-Agencies)