In the columns of Vanity Fairthis January 22, 2025, Catherine Deneuve makes new confidences about those who left her. And who he misses a lot. She talks about his sister, Françoise Dorléacfirst, died in a car accident in 1967, near Nice. She was only 25 years old.
Catherine Deneuve also talks about his mother, Renéewho died in 2021, at the age of 109. To Philippe Lançon, Catherine Deneuve explains regarding these ghosts: “It’s weird the more time passes, the more things from the past, from childhood, are there“.
This traumatic memory of his mother
And to first cite a traumatic memory. Indeed, Catherine Deneuve says: “For example, the day when my mother left for the sanatorium. It was horrible, she was taken away, I was looking out the window, I was seven years old, I could describe exactly that window, its size, its frame, the light, everything.”
While her mother was being treated, Catherine Deneuve recounts how her dad took care of her and her 3 sisters (Françoise, Sylvie, Danielle) for a year. The actress remembers: “he got up early to prepare breakfast, he dressed us, took us to school“.
Later, as the third daughter of her family, Catherine Deneuve chose her profession by chance. Because Françoise was already practicing it and she had suggested it to him.
But for all that, “would she have continued to be an actress if her sister Françoise had not died in an accident?” asks Philippe Lançon. Probably not, answers Catherine Deneuve. She assures: “Maybe I would have become an archaeologist.
-Catherine Deneuve worships her sister
As to whether the heroine of “Young ladies of Rochefort“continues to think of the one who was her partner, she responds bluntly. Françoise Dorléac remembers her.”every day. Every evening”. And the movie star even admitted: “There is a photo in my office“.
But this photo, which she framed, is a photo that no one knows. Catherine Deneuve comments about this treasure: “It’s not her when she was an actress, but it’s so much her… Young girl, young woman… A very beautiful mouth, and the two little folds there, at the corners… and that soft look…”
