French Film Legend Catherine Deneuve
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Internationally famous for her artistry, beauty and cinematic collaborations with some of the world¹s greatest directors, Ms. Deneuve will visit Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra to introduce select Festival screenings of her latest film, AFTER HIM (Après Lui), directed by Gaël Morel and co-written by Christophe Honoré, and will also be guest-of-honour at the opening of the Festival in Canberra on 20 March. In one of her most expressive roles in years, she stars as Camille, a distraught mother, whose life is turned upside down when her twenty year-old son is killed in an accident. She then develops an obsessive interest in her late child¹s best friend (the stunning Thomas Dumerchez), who slowly realizes that her attraction for him poses a threat. Selected for Director¹s Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, this moving drama is one of the highlights of the 2008 Festival. Catapulted into the A-list of French cinema by her unforgettable performance in THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival), Catherine Deneuve has, since that time, captivated the world of cinema. Eighty roles performed around the globe, with filmdom¹s greatest directors, have sculpted her character without ever exhausting its mystery. The preferred actress of Jacques Demy and André Techiné, her career has been punctuated by roles which have been especially created for her by filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel (with whom she made the classic BELLE DE JOUR), Roman Polanski, Marco Ferreri, Claude Lelouch, and François Truffaut, who directed her in THE LAST METRO, for which she received the Caesar, (France¹s equivalent to the Oscar) for Best Actress. Director Regis Wargnier¹s sweeping drama, INDOCHINE, saw her honoured with a second Caesar Award for Best Actress. She has also worked with François Ozon (8 WOMEN), Manoel de Oliveira (I¹M GOING HOME) and with Lars von Trier for DANCER IN THE DARK, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Additionally, Ms Deneuve is a sough-after jury member at international films festivals: she co-chaired the jury of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival with Clint Eastwood and was jury head at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. We are incredibly honoured that an actor of Ms. Deneuve¹s stature will be a guest of our Festival,² said Bruno Duparc, General Delegate of the Alliance Française in Australia. ³Ms. Deneuve is the most outstanding ambassador we could possibly hope to have. She is French cinema! Jean-Jacques Garnier, Cultural Attaché to the French Consulate-General, and the Festival¹s Artistic Director, agreed, adding, ³Catherine Deneuve is the living embodiment of all that is great about France¹s film industry and her visit will make the 2008 event a profoundly memorable occasion. Ms. Deneuve¹s visit has been made possible with the help and sponsorship provided by France¹s renowned film cultural organization Unifrance, which, since their formation in 1949, has been devoted to promoting French cinema worldwide via show-cases, festivals, workshops and special events. National Dates for the 2008 Alliance Française French Film Festival are: Sydney : 5-19 March Palace Academy, Palace Verona & Palace Norton Street Melbourne : 6-19 March Palace Como, Palace Balwyn & Palace Westgarth Canberra : 20-30 March Greater Union Manuka Brisbane : 20-30 March Palace Centro Adelaide : 27 March - 6 April Palace Nova Eastend Perth : 27 March - 6 April Cinema Paradiso |
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