Catherine Deneuve. Catherine Deneuve: Ice Maiden
Jean Paul Gaultier and Catherine Deneuve after the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture Fall-Winter 2017-18 show
Paris Fashion Week is nearing its end: one of the last collections today is shown by l "enfant terrible - the "unbearable child" of modern fashion, Jean-Paul Gaultier.
Maestro Gauthier is a recognized master of provocation. Balancing on a very fine line, each Gauthier collection is a challenge to public taste and the generally recognized canons of beauty and femininity. However, there are plenty of admirers of his talent - and first of all thanks to the same provocation.
This time, Gauthier's favorite technique, the desire for androgyny, is changing dramatically. It degrades to short puffy unisex vests and a couple of wardrobe items. The rest are typical women's things: long coats, short skirts, wraparound kimonos.
The evolution of color in the collection is interesting: it all starts with the most popular color of this week - gray. He appears on double-breasted jackets, as if taken from a man's shoulder, complex skirts, coats with a gradient.
Then gray disappears to give way to black, which unfolds on the catwalk in grand style, adorning trousers, jackets, elaborate jumpsuits and shoes. In the course of the play, beige and red are added to it: the first is responsible for the theatricality of what is happening, and the second, together with a bright purple hue, makes you remember the 80s - the time of the creative heyday of Gauthier himself.
After that, fuchsia comes to the fore in matte and glossy versions; khaki, yellow and a whole palette of colors. Toward the end, silver also appears, thus creating a classic dramatic ring composition.
The show also ends in accordance with all the laws of dramaturgy - Coco Rocha leaves on the podium in a golden and super-futuristic overalls, on which an almost transparent mini-dress is put on top. Whether this exit can be considered a wedding dress, as Gauthier now sees it, we do not know. But one thing is for sure: this image in particular and the entire collection in general can be studied for hours.
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Three men asked for her hand and heart, she agreed to one, and then regretted it. Why does the legend of French and world cinema value freedom so much?
She grew up in a theatrical family but never pursued an acting career. The middle of the three sisters, Catherine was the only one who was wary of the stage and made no effort to continue the dynasty. She first got on the set thanks to her older sister, Francoise Dorléac.
Out of place
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Francoise was only a year and a half older than Catherine. They grew up in the same room and were very close. When the older sister was already acting in films with might and main, Katrin only played in amateur productions.
On the set of The Doors Slam (1961), the heroine Francoise had a younger sister in the story. And she offered her sister Catherine for this role.
Since then, both sisters begin to regularly act in films, and Catherine takes her grandmother's maiden name, Deneuve, as a pseudonym, deciding that one actress Dorleac is enough for France. Everything is going well: the youngest wakes up as a world celebrity after the premiere of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), the eldest begins an international career, starring in Roman Polansky's Dead End.
Everything was cut short by an absurd tragic accident. In the summer of 1967, the sisters were supposed to meet on the Cote d'Azur, Francoise was driving a car to Nice airport, missing her flight. On a dangerous section of the road, she lost control: the car crashed and caught fire. The girl died on the spot.
“I am tormented by a terrible sense of guilt - because it was she who persuaded me to act in films, although this was her destiny,” Catherine Deneuve once said in an interview.
Love and career
Girls from Rochefort (1966) Already after the death of Françoise, the last film was released in which they played together - "Girls from Rochefort".
The interest of the audience in the young actress does not weaken, and pretty soon Catherine Deneuve is filmed only by the best directors in France.
One of them was Roger Vadim. They met when she was only 17. He is twice as old and crazy about the young actress. Of course, she ran away from home and settled with her lover.
After the birth of their son Christian, Roger Vadim proposed to her, but Catherine refused. Even then, despite her youth and the precarious position of the young actress, she began to understand: marriage was not for her.
Pretty soon, Deneuve became disillusioned with this relationship and left Roger. And two years later she got married.
marriage on paper
For the Two of Us (1979) British photographer David Bailey became her chosen one. At the wedding, there was neither the traditional white dress of the bride, nor romance - but Mick Jagger himself became the groom's best man.
They were officially married for 7 years. In fact, Deneuve left her husband a year after the wedding - it was then that she was finally convinced that marriage was not for her.
“It's not a matter of faith at all, it's a matter of making the right choice. Because only in this case marriage works. It’s just that in this day and age where it’s so easy to get divorced, marriage is no longer an institution that really matters,” says the actress.
After her divorce from David, she will say: the best thing that happened in their marriage was the opportunity to learn English.
But the absence of a stamp in the passport has never been for Deneuve an obstacle to love or the birth of children. Her second child, daughter Chiara, was born from a relationship with Italian actor and director Marcello Mastroianni.
impregnable fortress
Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni They met on the set of the film It Only Happens to Others. 49-year-old Marcello, who has a wife and many mistresses, disappeared as soon as he saw the cold beauty of Deneuve. For the first time in his life, he did not just start an affair - he demanded a divorce from his forgiving wife Flora.
She agreed, and Mastroianni moved from Rome to Paris, closer to his beloved. All the familiar couples noticed how happy and beautiful Catherine was in those days. They settled together in her house, went to restaurants and dance houses, and almost never parted.
This continued until Marcello made his main mistake: he offered Deneuve to become his wife. She briefly answered "No", packed her things and left.
But Mastroianni did not give up. Returning briefly to Rome, he realized that he could not live without his Frenchwoman, and agreed to her conditions: to be together, but not married.
In 1970, European journalists published a sensation: Catherine Deneuve was pregnant by Marcello Mastroianni! Everyone joked that this was the last resort he hoped to lure her down the aisle. But it didn’t work either: after the birth of her daughter Chiara, Catherine’s decision remained unchanged. Their relationship began to deteriorate and a year after the birth of their daughter finally ended.
Now that Catherine Deneuve is already over 70, she calmly admits that her life has turned out in the best way. She still occasionally acts in films, lives in her beloved France, plants flowers, and brings up her grandchildren.
And he categorically refuses to write his memoirs: “I prefer to live and, yes, go on dates, rather than waste time describing them.”
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A timid, shy girl did not even think about becoming an actress someday in her childhood. Unlike her beautiful sister, who dreamed of cinema, Catherine Deneuve was modest in her desires. But fate chose her for the movie, and quite unexpectedly.
Catherine Deneuve is so beautiful in her own right that the film in which she plays shouldn't even tell a story. I'm sure the viewer will be happy just to see Katherine's face
François Truffaut
TO MYSELF PYGMALION
Catherine Dorléac was born on a gloomy rainy morning on October 22, 1943 in German-occupied Paris. In October 2011, she turned 68, but she still remains one of the most beautiful actresses in French cinema. She grew up on Boulevard Murat in a family of theater actors Maurice and René Dorléac. Parents tried to give their four daughters a brilliant education and upbringing, the girls were taught languages, music, dances and good manners. For the summer the whole family left Paris. And now Catherine spends more time in her country house and garden than anywhere else, and calls herself a "rural Frenchwoman."
As a child, Katrin was not a leader, outwardly she looked timid and obedient. Perhaps only the father understood what temperament and strong character was hidden behind the calmness of his daughter. At that time, Catherine did not even think about cinema, unlike her older beautiful sister Francoise, who was very self-confident and dreamed of cinema. Catherine, on the other hand, grew up shy and silent, she studied diligently, loved to draw and read a lot. But fate does not ask, but chooses... The guest of the Dorléac family, director Andre Yunnebel, invited a dark-haired fifteen-year-old girl to star in the extras of his film "Kittens", and Catherine accepted the offer only because her adored Francoise played there. As a pseudonym, she chose the name of her mother - Deneuve. On the set, she was shy and pinched, complexed because of her appearance. “For a very long time I was considered timid and narrow-minded. Imagine a pretty girl who is just a label ... All our complexes come from childhood. It is clear that Catherine saw herself in the eyes of those around her as a beautiful, stupid doll. She did not know how to correct this dissonance. But very soon Katrin will prove to the whole world what she really is worth. This is later, but for now she is 17, and she meets the director Roger Vadim. The master was shocked by the beauty of the girl, and what was guessed behind her - a strong inner core.
The master, who lit more than one star, began to shoot Deneuve in his films (“Satan rules the show there”, “Vice and Virtue”), where she got the roles of seductresses. But Catherine's euphoria and self-confidence, which had grown stronger, quickly melted away. Probably, Vadim wanted to make a new Brigitte Bardot out of Catherine. Once again, he created a sex symbol, but did not become Pygmalion for the obstinate Galatea. Proud Catherine chose to choose her own path. What Roger Vadim sculpted from her was alien to her. Yes, she dyed her hair blonde, as he ordered, but she did not want to become the new baby doll. Despite the birth of her son Christian and the prospects that an alliance with the most branded director of France opened up for her, she left him.
In love, nothing surprises me, but everything amazes me
20-year-old Catherine, who was already responsible for the child, rejected a prosperous life with a rich and famous lover who was also ready to marry, and set off on a solo voyage. Answering the endless questions of the press “why?”, She said: “I am my own Pygmalion. Roger sought to fit all the actresses into the stereotype of Brigitte Bardot. Our pictures with him had practically no success. Perhaps the director also needed a second Brigitte in love? hour. Disappointment in love was compensated by the wild success of Katrin in the cinema.
Filming is the best time of my life
The fateful meeting with director Jacques Demy ended with an invitation to the main role in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. And it was a real triumph. But the gifts of heaven did not end there - the man with whom Katrin fell passionately in love dreamed of only one thing: to lead his beloved down the aisle. It was fashionable English photographer David Bailey. Finally, she found her happiness.
WHAT'S ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BASKET?
The husband immediately introduced Catherine Deneuve into his circle. She became part of the community of directors of the "new wave" - Roman Polanski, Luis Buñuel, Francois Truffaut, Claude Lelouch ... They invite Catherine to star in their films. Roles in the films "Disgust", "Beauty of the Day", "Tristana" became a milestone for her. But the more successful the career was, the worse it was with his personal life. The couple continued to live their own lives “and spent so little time together that there could be no other solution than parting,” Catherine Deneuve will later say. David lived in London, while Catherine was torn between the two capitals, London and Paris, where she was filming and where her son Christian lived. Her first and last marriage lasted three years. “I always believed that only a man who is next to you can solve all your problems and dispel doubts. With me, it was different." Well, she is not the first and not the last, for whom the deceit of these, in general, chimerical expectations is a good reason for divorce. “It seems that life gave me an endless test, which I tried to endure, wanting to build it the way I saw fit myself.”
A perfectionist and a maximalist, a psychologist would say. She became tougher and colder, overcoming her own weaknesses and complexes. You can imagine what it was like for her to star in Buñuel's film "Beauty of the Day", where her heroine secretly works in a brothel from her husband, allowing her clients to embody any erotic fantasies, in one phrase of Catherine Deneuve: "I am extremely shy. You can't even imagine to what extent. I NEVER IMAGINED THAT SOMEONE CAN LOOK INTO MY BASKET... Her insecurities and fears and everything that she hides under the mask of the "snow queen" are hidden behind the lining. She tried to justify herself: “I look cold, because the blonde, and my facial expressions are not too mobile. In fact, I am a man of passions ... "... As if trying to prove something to someone, Catherine Deneuve throws herself headlong into the maelstrom of an affair with director Francois Truffaut. Two years later, she announced to him that everything was over between them, and flew to America to star in the film April Follies.
Why is marriage necessary if there is a divorce?
And again a triumph! Criticism compared Katrin to Greta Garbo, and a Newsweek columnist wrote: “French actresses, like French wine, are not transportable. Except for Catherine Deneuve... She returned to Europe, an actress who became a celebrity on the other side of the ocean. And at home, a new job was already waiting for her. And - this she did not know yet - a new love. The whole world soon spoke about this novel.
"THIS ONLY HAPPENS TO OTHERS"
On the set of the film of the same name, something unimaginable was happening. The world-famous Italian Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve spun in a crazy love tango. In the dance, mixed with a burning mixture of passion and disappointment, they spent several years. Bright, loud, surprisingly cheerful Mastroianni loved widely, sweepingly and generously. Romantic meetings in Rome, Paris, Nice... It was a time of noisy feasts, endless parties and love dates. Marcello persuaded her to work less and rest more often. He gave Catherine a luxurious villa in Nice, and in return she handed him the keys to a luxury car. “What can I give you when you give birth to my child?” he asked his beloved. She did not answer, and a year later she gave birth to a daughter, Chiara. And she refused to marry Marcello. “You already have a wife,” she said. And so they lived. Mastroianni spent a week in Rome, a week in Paris, until one day he heard: “Our relationship has exhausted itself. Sorry and goodbye".
Are feelings really dead? “Sometimes it seems to me that love is a continuous pain. The tragic death of the dearest person, sister Francoise, became a nightmarish revelation for me: someday love will surely die. The fear of losing loved ones has become an incurable phobia for me. Since then, I have not given my heart to anyone. Without possessing, you don’t lose, ”Deneuve once confesses under the pressure of journalists. The beautiful love story of this couple was discussed by almost half the planet, and reporters besieged in droves both Deneuve and Mastroianni ... She acted as she always did. The little girl, shocked by the death of her sister, grew up, but flatly refused to part with her childish saving thought: since love can go away, one must always play ahead of the curve. Catherine Deneuve, it turns out, never knew what real freedom in a relationship is. How hard it is for a person to live, locked in a cage of his own psychological taboos! And never try to take a deep breath... Sitting at the bottom of a well, you see only part of the sky, but not the entire horizon.
The idea of growing old together is wonderful in itself, but not for me. She gives me fear
So, Marcello Mastroianni left, and Deneuve sometimes continued to come to the Latin Quarter of Paris, where they lived together, to wander alone (a black wig and sunglasses changed Catherine's appearance) through the narrow streets.
She could talk about the vicissitudes of love only with her best friend Gerard Depardieu: “I liked to talk about love only with Depardieu. We drained all the dry red wine in his cellar. And they chatted, sitting on the balcony, all day long. Of course, no one will believe it, but then I realized that true friendship is love. There is a strong male friendship between us. And you still won’t know anything else, ”Deneuve told reporters. Depardieu, in turn, expressed himself in a very original way: "Catherine is the man I would like to become" ...
HOW MUCH IS A KISS?
Two stars in the same sky - that was the name of Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve, who starred together in the film "Policeman". A couple of weeks after filming, they had dinner together, and one day the paparazzi photographed them having breakfast at Delon's villa. Catherine, as usual, was silent, and Delon chattered incessantly, distributing interviews to all the newspapers. Yes, he met his only love, without which he can no longer imagine his life. The tabloids printed circulations non-stop, giving the most beautiful couple the front pages, and then a scandal broke out that further fueled interest in this woman. “Thanks to chatty assistants, I found out that our affair was included in the estimate of the PR campaign of the picture. Only Alena was warned about this and offered a deal, and I kissed for free. To be honest, Alain is a terrible kisser. I don't understand why women love him so much. He tried to justify himself to me and said something about a bet and an unsuccessful joke ... As a result, only the lazy did not throw a spear at Delon, the film "Policeman" failed miserably.
Mademoiselle
Catherine Deneuve never married again. Over the years, she demanded to call herself "mademoiselle" and allowed herself to have affairs with whomever and whenever she pleased. “I felt responsible for myself very early. I left my parents, gave birth to a child when I was not even 20 years old. And now that my children have grown up, real youth has finally come for me, which was not there at the time when it was supposed to be. Everything turned out topsy-turvy for me.” "Why are you so against the word" madam "? journalists ask. “It seems to me that the prefix madam is like an extra wrinkle: it makes you ten years older at once,” she replies.
Those with whom she started working in the cinema have long gone the distance, and Catherine Deneuve is still “in the top”. “I gave birth and raised two children without being married and without interrupting my work in the cinema,” the actress is proud of herself. From Monday to Friday she lives in Paris, and spends the weekend in a country house. She does not like to sunbathe, as ultraviolet ages the skin. For the same reason, she does not abuse makeup. Contrary to the unwritten French law, he does not drink wine at dinner, leaving this pleasure for the evening. He drinks a lot of coffee during the day (“divine drink”!) And smokes like a locomotive (“if I quit, I will immediately get better”). “I am a dreamer at heart. Yes, in life too. I know that my appearance says something completely different. But I have no desire to dissuade people that I am not at all what I seem, ”she says.
Catherine Deneuve - LEMON TREE
In France, Catherine Deneuve is called the "ice maiden". As mysterious as a rosebud, she compares herself to a lemon tree. Perhaps because, like this tree, she needs care and special conditions for creativity.
For me there is a past tense, but there is nothing past
The lemon tree and Catherine Deneuve are selfish. A tree bears fruit only when there is sun, moisture and a good attitude. The actress creates only when she decides whether the role suits her. Francoise Sagan once said about her: “I never heard her talk about her art with tears in her voice, I never saw her in an apron at the stove stirring bechamel. There is no stupidity, no weakness, no anger, no contempt in her. One dignity and restraint. Director Roger Vadim, whose wives all became movie stars, wrote: “She was created to rule, and she was convinced that she was always right. She is smart, not devoid of sensuality and humor, so it was so easy to fall under her charm before it became clear that you should always say yes. Only in rare moments of confusion did she seem to be a weak and vulnerable creature.
"Are you happy?" asked one journalist Catherine Deneuve. - "Not at all. I was happy 45 years ago when I starred in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Now I just love life."
Catherine Deneuve - one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, French singer and film actress. She never played in the theater due to stage fright. The film award "Cesar" was nominated 13 times as "best actress" and won twice. For the image in the film "Indochina" Katrin could receive an Oscar for best actress, but Emma Thompson bypassed her. Deneuve is an award winner at the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. In 2008, she received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival as a special award for her achievements in the arts.
Biography Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve was born in Paris on October 22, 1943. Her mother is the famous actress Rene Simono, her father is the equally famous French actor Maurice Dorléac. Katrin grew up with three sisters who from childhood went on stage and acted in films.
Deneuve did not dream of being an actress. She always had stage fright, she grew up timid and silent, loved to spend time reading and drawing. The parents of the future star provided their children with the best education. The girls were engaged in dancing, singing, learning languages and rules of etiquette.
The older sister Francoise began to develop a successful film career. For Deneuve, she was a role model. At the age of 14, Katrin decided to make her debut in the movie "Gymnasium Girls". In order not to be compared with her sister, she abandoned the surname Dorléac and took her grandmother's maiden name.
Real fame and recognition came to Catherine Deneuve with the release of the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". The musical conquered the Cannes Film Festival, Catherine received the status of a star. After this triumph, she had many leading roles in which she revealed the images of various heroines.
In 1967, her sister Françoise died in a car accident. Deneuve was very upset by this tragedy. She continued to act, and soon the status of the best French actress was assigned to her. The paintings "Indochina", "Girls from Rochefort", "Beauty of the Day", "Dancing in the Dark", "Eight Women" and others had great success.
In addition to acting talent, Katrin has excellent vocal abilities. She showed them in the film "I love you", and then released her disc "Souviens-toi de m'oublier". In 2004, Andrei Plakhov wrote a book about the life and career of an actress. The presentation took place in Moscow.
In 1971, Catherine Deneuve and 342 other French women signed Manifesto 343, created by the writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir. Women stated that they all had illegal abortions, which at that time could be catered for ... Star abortions: famous women who had an abortion and were not afraid to talk about it
Personal life of Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve has always been successful with men. At the age of 17, she began a stormy romance with Roger Vadim. He was 15 years older than her. Roger filmed her in his films and dreamed of making a real star out of a young beauty. Catherine fell in love with the director, ran away from home and moved to live with him. Soon their son Christian was born. Roger offered Deneuve to legalize the relationship, but she refused. Joint life disappointed her, and soon the couple broke up.
A couple of years later, she met the famous British photographer David Bailey. This was the only man with whom she agreed to marry. The husband introduced the actress to such directors as Truffaut, Polanski, Buñuel. The marriage with Bailey did not last long. They lived for about three years and separated, but officially divorced after another four years. According to the actress, this union was doomed. Everyone lived their own life. The best thing she got from this relationship is knowledge of English.
In 1971, Catherine began to communicate with Marcello Mastroianni. According to the documents, she was still a married woman, but this did not interfere with their relationship. Mastroianni wanted to marry an actress, but she refused him. They had a daughter, Chiara, and four years later, Deneuve invited Marcello to remain friends.
The next passionate romance began with a movie star with Gerard Depardieu. They were together for ten years. Depardieu became the actress's lover and best friend. But these relationships have run their course.
Then followed an affair with Alain Delon. They starred together in the film "Cop". Delon seduced a colleague and immediately began to give interviews to journalists that he had met his only one. Deneuve was silent, and then burst into negative comments about him. It turned out that the connection between the actors was planned as part of a PR campaign. A deal was made with Alain, but Catherine did not know anything. As a result, the novel ended in a loud scandal.
The actress did not marry again. She publicly spoke out that, having significant life experience and raising her children, she received the right to live a full life and not report to anyone. Among her latest boyfriends were the chansonnier Yves Montand and the head of Canal +, Pierre Lescure.
