This Thursday, December 19, 2024 on Arte, it’s time for a great classic of the French seventh art that will make young and old alike dream. A film which revealed a certain Catherine Deneuve…
She is one of the greatest actresses of our cinema. She is Catherine Deneuve, muse of many directors for better and for worse. One of the rare true stars of the cultural world, some of whose appearances at fashion week left an impression on observers. Symbol of the importance of the actress, she will be the President of the next César ceremony. It has been more than sixty years since the woman who suffered a stroke in 2019 has been at the top of the bill. Exceptional longevity, rewarded with two Césars for best actress (in 1981 for The Last Metro and in 1993 for Indochina), an honorary Golden Bear in Berlin in 1998, the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1998 (for Place Vendôme), a special prize in Cannes in 2008 and an Honorary Lion in Venice in 2022. Don’t throw it away! But like everyone else, Catherine Deneuve had to start her career…
The Umbrellas of Cherbourgflamboyant melodrama crowned at Cannes, with Catherine Deneuve
After a few appearances in works now forgotten, it is with The Umbrellas of Cherbourgbroadcast this Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 8:55 p.m. on Arte, that Catherine Deneuve reveals herself to the general public. Released in theaters in February 1964, this melodrama in shimmering colors by Jacques Demy (who would find the actress a few years later in another cult film, Donkey skin), follows Geneviève (Deneuve), a young woman who plans to marry Guy, a mechanic. Shortly after his departure for Algeria, she learned that she was pregnant. Without news from Guy, Geneviève ends up giving in to pressure from her mother and marries a diamond merchant. Grand Prix (the ancestor of the Palme d’Or) at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964, nominated four times for the Oscars, the feature film benefits from the marvelous musical score of Michel Legrand, one time companion of Macha Méril. A great classic of French cinema, to watch again or to introduce to young spectators.
Who was the companion of Catherine Deneuve, father of her daughter Chiara Mastroianni?
After The Umbrellas of Cherbourga masterpiece in which the daughter of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy plays an unsuspected role, Catherine Deneuve will continue her career with the success that we know. And his family is also part of the history of the seventh art. The actress will in fact live a passionate story with Marcello Mastroianni, a great figure in Italian cinema. The couple then gave birth to a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, also a leading actress. The latter also played her father in the film Marcello Miopresented in May 2024 in Cannes. The opportunity for a most prestigious climb of the stairs. A real cinema clan!
