Sophie Marceau is one of the leading French actresses of the 80s. The reason? The Booma generational film, mixing adolescent learning and blue-flower romance, then The Studenta sort of more mature spiritual sequel. She also shoots for the Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski who becomes his companion. This evokes without taboo his notion of the couple.
Sophie Marceau, revelation of French cinema
Sophie Marceau becomes the new icon of French cinema at just 13 years old! Like that, bam, thanks to a film which becomes a cult snapshot, The Boom. Directed by Claude Pinoteauthis sentimental comedy tells the story of a teenager ready to do anything to go to her first job. And find love. Sophie Marceau bursts the screen with her accuracy.
Two years later, in 1982, the actress won the César for Most Promising Actress in the sequel, The Boom 2. Claude Pinoteau then offered him the main role of The Studentspiritual sequel to The Boom. In the meantime, the actress filmed for Maurice Pialatin the dark Policefacing
Gérard Depardieu. But especially in front of Andrzej Żuławski’s camera.
Her romance with director Andrzej Żuławski
Żuławski is a very demanding filmmaker, adept at films that are much more introspective and darker than those by Pinoteau.
In Love pointsSophie Marceau breaks her image as an idol for teenage girls. At 19, she shines brightly in this drama, inspired by a classic
Dostoyevskymixing robbery, prostitution and nightlife in a ghostly Paris.
Sophie Marceau then began living together with the Polish filmmaker. She found him again in 1988 for the well-titled My nights are more beautiful than your days. Facing
Jacques Dutroncshe plays a young lost girl, exploited by her mother, who performs lewd divination acts. Actress and director will shoot two other films together in 1991 and 2000.
Sophie Marceau opens up about sexuality
The couple gave birth to a child in 1995. That is, six years before their final separation after 17 years of living together. Sophie Marceau had a liaison
with the producer of an episode of James Bond, Jim
Lemleyin which she starred in 1999. She has a child, a daughter, with him. From 2007 to 2014, she experienced a passion with actor Christophe Lambert.
After their separation, she began a brief romance with the cook and presenter Cyril Lignac. Finally, in 2020, she formalized her relationship with a theater producer, Richard Caillatbefore separating two years later. In the columns of ELLE, in 2014, Sophie Marceau indulged in some confidences about the couple. “I have always been in love, I am so lucky.”, confides the interpreter of The Boom. “And I always felt loved, which is even stronger. For me, sex has always been linked to love, to feelings. In life, sex is important, it involves intimate things.“His nights are definitely more beautiful than your days…
