In 2023, after Mick Jagger in July and Robert de Niro in August, it’s Catherine Deneuve’s turn to celebrate her eightieth birthday on October 22. A hell of a good age for a personality who has spanned the decades, despite a stroke in 2019, always knowing how to be where we least expected him. As proof, the last film, released in theaters since October 4, in which she starred. She has a blast playing an almost larger-than-life Bernadette Chirac in the film Bernadette by Léa Domenach. She knows how to change register, going from comic to dramatic, and doesn’t hold back. Despite a career as long as an arm, she never ceases to amaze us. She is moving in the role of the mother who accompanies her son facing incurable cancer, masterfully played by Benoît Magimel, in the film In his lifetime (2021) by Emmanuelle Bercot.
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Far from the smooth image that we might have of her, Chiara Mastroianni’s mother is much more rock’n roll than we imagine. Her friend, the director André Téchiné with whom she filmed eight times, describes her in this way in comments reported by Point in 2013 : “It is a water that sleeps but, beneath this water, there is madness, insubordination.” There is no doubt that Catherine Deneuve could have a little touch of madness. Doesn’t she have two tattoos on her body? “The first one was a long time ago.”she declared, in 2014, in Obsessionthe former monthly supplement of New Observer“it’s on my neck, hidden by my hair. On the foot, it’s more recent. I always liked it.”
Fashionata and rock’n roll!
His audacity is also seen in his clothing. Leopard pattern, lace top, she dares everything. She also did not hesitate to pose in lingerie, in 2014during a photo session for an additional fee New York Times. At 70 years old. When we tell you that the character is rock n’roll! Also daring in her career. His eclectic roles speak for themselves. This is undoubtedly why directors are fighting for it. Always in fashion, never out of fashion. Time doesn’t seem to have any effect on her either.
For Catherine Deneuve, the day of October 22, 2023 will be the date that will make her jump into another decade, but that doesn’t matter. “It’s true that it’s an age… But it will last 24 hours. The next day it’s over. The next day happened. Fortunately, we no longer talk about it, we no longer think about it. But it often remembers your order over time.”she argued on the set of Daily, on October 4, against Yann Barthès. If the actress has the same longevity as her mother Renée Dorléac, who died at the age of 109, she still has great prospects for the future and projects to come!