Catherine Deneuve - Acting Masterclass © François Guillot / AFP
Rendez-vous with Catherine Deneuve
"Not a Masterclass but rather a dialogue about cinema, those who made it, those who are under the light and those who remain in the shadow." Catherine Deneuve, leading figure of french cinema, will be present on Thursday, May 12th in the Buñuel Theatre, to hold an Actress Masterclass. The opportunity to go bak on her career, her collaborations with the greatest director in France and abroad, and dialogue with the public about whose who make, have made and will make the cinema.
Brought to fame by The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Palme d'or at the Festival de Cannes in 1964, catapulted into the A-list of French film thanks to Demy, Polansky, Buñuel and Truffault, Catherine Deneuve has ever since captivated the world of cinema. The quality of her acting has earned her two Césars, in 1981 for The Last Metro by François Truffaut and in 1992 for Indochina by Régis Wargnier.
Seventy roles played throughout the world with the greatest directors have sculpted her character without ever exhausting its mystery. The preferred actress of Jacques Demy and André Techiné, the story of her career has also been written by Léos Carax (Pola X), Arnaud Desplechin (Kings and Queen), François Ozon (8 Women), Manoel de Oliveira (I'm Going Home) or Lars Von Trier for Dancer in the Dark, Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes in 2000.
“What I prefer most in herself is her mystery. She perfectly plays roles which hide a secret, a double life. Catherine Deneuve brings ambiguity in any situation, any script. (…) Her behaviour, her attitute, her restraint enable the spectators to project on her face the feelings they want to imagine. Catherine Deneuve doesn’t fear to be looked at but to be disclosed.”
François Truffaut
