IIt was necessary to leave such a place for an actress of this stature. The magazine Vanity Fair dedicates its February 2025 issue to Catherine Deneuve, on the occasion of the release of the film Yokai. The spirit world directed by Eric Khoo. The legendary actress of French cinema, for the occasion, confided in the journalist and novelist Philippe Lançon, survivor of the massacre of Charlie Hebdowhere he still works.
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“The great Catherine”, as she is thus presented, scratches in particular “the sanctification of #MeToo”, of which she finds, according to the author, the muses “heavy, sometimes hypocritical, always complaining”, describing one of them like, at the time of a film shoot, “young, joyful, enjoying everyone and everything, and who is now on a crusade, repainting her vanity fair as lost illusions”.
ALSO READ “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”: when melodrama touches the sublimeShe also talks about her stroke in 2019, on the set of During his lifetime by Emmanuelle Bercot: “I had hesitations about my text, memory lapses. I said it. They immediately realized that something was wrong and they reacted,” she explains. It was on her hospital bed, at Les Invalides, that she linked her destiny to that of Philippe Lançon. “It was there that I read your book, The Lambeau »she explains to him. “Around me, people told me, don’t read this, it will depress you. I read it and it was quite the opposite, it made me feel good. »
Buñuel, “actors bothered him”
“Accidents and illnesses are sometimes like filming: they create bonds, even at a distance. Like between ghosts. We share the same isolation, perhaps the same will to live. And, ultimately, the same memories, on one side of the screen and on the other. The one who greeted the injured person that I was carried within herself all the roles that I had loved,” explains the author, who shares the same masseur with Catherine Deneuve.
-On Luis Buñuel? “It was very strict with him. In my opinion, the actors were a bit annoying. In Beautiful daythere were scenes I didn't want to do. Nudity was no problem for him, but for me. Tristanait was different. Returning to Spain made him happy. I didn't ask for too many explanations. I can still see him telling me: and above all, don’t smile, eh! » On Polanski, she describes him as “very directive”. “With him, it was more things that happened than things that were said. It's a film that united us, Repulsion. But for me, the best film he made is Chinatown. »
ALSO READ In Cannes, the family in the spotlight on the steps for “Marcello mio” She also does not hesitate to confide in her sister, the actress Françoise Dorléac, who died in 1967 at the age of 25, when she and her younger sister had just experienced the immense success of Young ladies of Rochefortwhere they are the two main roles. Catherine Deneuve thus evokes a book that touched her recently: The Dancerby Modiano, “because my sister danced a lot, it reminded me of so many things, gestures, habits… Slippers… And I really like this secret that remains at the end. »
“Catherine was the woman who moved quickly, who escaped”
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“I take it you remember perfectly well what you were doing when you learned of his death?” » asks the novelist. “On the phone, I didn’t recognize my father’s voice… I didn’t recognize it. It was Piccoli who told me…” and the actress interrupts herself. “The sentence ends there. Listening to Catherine, sometimes, is like filling in a blank dictation. The emotion is in the holes,” recalls Philippe Lançon.
ALSO READ Deneuve: “Sexuality is limitless, but few filmmakers have managed to get close to it” “Catherine was the woman who moved quickly, who escaped, who caught the light, the colors and the ice, more than words. Then she became the woman who apparently slows down with age, who settles into her passions, but always the one who reveals almost nothing of what she thinks,” reports the novelist. Catherine Deneuve continues her career, filled with immense success. The legend is already written and will be known on February 26 with Yokai. The spirit worlda new line.
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