The experience of watching François Ozon's ''Potiche (Trophy Wife)'' is, in many ways, more like attending a theatrical matinee than like going out for a night at the movies. This is not only because Mr. Ozon's source is a once popular, slightly musty play from the 1970s (by the writing team of Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy), which he has...
What would French film culture look like without its queen, Catherine Deneuve, steering the ship of state? This magnificent enigma, now an ageless 67, recently received her 11th César (the French Oscar) nomination, for best actress in ''Potiche,''François Ozon's freewheeling screen adaptation of a boulevard comedy by Pierre Barillet and...
VENICE -- The in-competition list of the 67th Venice International Film Festival has yielded a strong lineup of watchable and thought-provoking films, with a number of promising ones to come, leaving the field wide open for the big prizes right up to the final wire. La Passione Carlo Mazzacurati deserves a wider international audience and his...
Catherine Deneuve (født 22. oktober 1943) er en fransk skuespillerinde, der har haft en karriere på film i mere end 50 år. Blandt hendes mest kendte film kan nævnes Pigen med paraplyerne, Dagens skønhed, Den sidste metro og Dancer in the Dark.
Med Roger Vadim han hun en søn, Christian Vadim, der også er skuespiller. Med Marcello Mastroianni har hun datteren Chiara Mastroianni, ligeledes skuespiller. Hun var i perioden 1965-72 gift med fotografen David Bailey.
Hendes position som fransk personlighed knæsattes, da hendes portræt i en årrække repræsenterede nationens æstetiske symbol, Marianne, hvormed hun bl.a. blev afbildet på frimærker.
Her ses et udvalg af de film, Deneuve har spillet med i.