Catherine Deneuve shouldn’t be that keen on reminiscing, at the same time as she prepares to gather a Lifetime Achievement Award on the Venice International Film Festival.
“We don’t have time to look backwards,” Deneuve informed reporters Wednesday, hours earlier than her award. “That is our current and now we have to proceed to go ahead.”
At 78, the legendary French actor is as busy as ever. She’s simply wrapped up one movie in Paris and is beginning one other quickly in Belgium. The trade setting, she thinks, is best for older ladies, and actors, in Europe than in America.
Deneuve has a protracted historical past with the Venice Movie Pageant, going again to 1967 when she received the Golden Lion for her portrayal of a well-heeled housewife who begins working at a brothel in Luis Buñuel’s traditional “Belle de Jour.” In 1998, she received the pageant’s Volpi Cup for “Place Vendôme.” She’ll gather this newest honor, one other Golden Lion, on the pageant’s opening night time.
Although she is commonly described as an icon of cinema, Deneuve rejects the time period for herself. She additionally stated she doesn’t assume she was ever a “intercourse image” both.
However she nonetheless treasures the movies she made with administrators Jacques Demy (“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” “The Younger Ladies of Rochefort” and “Donkey Pores and skin”) and François Truffaut (“The Final Metro”). Demy particularly, she stated, was crucial in her early profession when she hadn’t but had a lot expertise in movie.
“As we speak, the vital issues are the identical: The story I wish to inform … the screenplay … the setting we create … the folks I’ll spend time with,” Deneuve stated.
She additionally continues to hunt out new films — and needs to see them in a crowd at a theater.
“I like cinema. I like going to the cinema,” she stated. “I wish to be in a cinema with folks I don’t know. It’s not simply the sound. It’s the ambiance. At residence, it’s very completely different. You don’t really feel issues the identical in any respect.”
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