Catherine deneuve biography filmography
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Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (1963). Her breakthrough came with the excellent musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), in which she gave an unforgettable performance as a romantic middle-class girl who falls in love with a young soldier but gets imprisoned in a loveless marriage with another man; the director was the gifted Jacques Demy, who also cast Deneuve in the less successful The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). She then played a schizophrenic killer in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and a married woman who works as a part-time prostitute every afternoon in Luis Buñuel's masterpiece Belle de Jour (1967). She also worked with Buñuel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance for François Truffaut
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CATHERINE DENEUVE BOOKSHELF |
The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve: My Life Behind the Camera by Catherine Deneuve
Deneuve's intimate autobiography, focusing especially on her work with directors Bunuel, Truffaut, Polanski, and von Trier. These are Catherine's own words about her personal life and her career in the spelfilm industry.
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From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom by Lisa Downing and Sue Harris (editors)
A wide-ranging and authoritative collection of essays by a selection of international film academics and writers. Deneuve persona of French national icon is scrutinized and illuminated, beyond the glamorous iconographic status of Yves Saint Laurentis muse, and the förkroppsligande of sexual inviolability.
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IMAGE GALLERY |
A Theatrical Family
Catherine Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris at a time when the city was under German occupation. Her
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Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until bekräftelse Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (1963). Her breakthrough came with the excellent musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), in which she gave an unforgettable performance as a romantic middle-class girl who falls in love with a young soldier but gets imprisoned in a loveless marriage with another man; the director was the gifted Jacques Demy, who also cast Deneuve in the less successful The ung Girls of Rochefort (1967). She then played a schizophrenic killer in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and a married woman who works as a part-time prostitute every afternoon in Luis Buñuel's masterpiece Belle de Jour (1967). She also worked with Buñuel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance