Everything has been said about Romy Schneider, about her beauty, about the great films that have marked her career and about the last call she made. We have written everything about her male partners, foremost among which is Michel Piccoli, who later revealed that he had a secret affair with her. We have told everything about the men in his life, including Alain Delon (who recently paid him a vibrant tribute in September 2020 on the eve of his birthday).
And yet if there is one who has said little about Romy Schneider, it is her daughter, the actress Sarah Biasini (born from the union of Romy Schneider with her last husband Daniel Biasini) who was four years old and half when her mother was found dead on May 29, 1982. She does so today in The beauty of the sky a very moving book, which touches the heart, by its modesty and its delicacy, to be published by Éditions Stock on January 6, 2021.
In this book, Sarah Biasini addresses her daughter, Anna. It is for her daughter, as much as for herself that she tells, her memories with her mother, this grandmother that her child will never know and that she refuses to call by her name. actress. Not once does Romy Schneider's name appear in the book. You have to wait for page 196 to read his first name alone and this parenthesis as a sorry, heartbreaking confession: "(I would have written at least her first namem) ". Why doesn't she name her, why does she just mention movies like Sissi Empress or The old gun in which she starred, you ask yourself? Quite simply because this beloved actress, for Sarah Biasini, is above all her mother and she has never ceased to share her with France and the whole world when she would have liked so much to keep her nothing for she. And because this mother has always been stolen from her.
Bury your mother a second time
Even in death, it was stolen from him, his mother. It is on the tragic episode of the desecration of the family vault where Romy Schneider and her son David (who died tragically a year before her) rest, that Sarah Biasini's book opens. "The phone rings, Sunday May 1, 2017, around 10 am ", she writes. Her husband Gilles has gone to the cinema, she is alone at home, and pretends not to remember what she is doing when deep down she knows it very well, so much the violence of this moment has become encysted in she. She is in her kitchen washing the dishes. Time taunts her. "The weather is fine, by the way, I remember the rays of the sun which widely pass through the apartment ", she specifies. Not knowing the number displayed on her phone screen, Sarah Biasini does not pick up. When she listens to her voicemail, she finds a message from the Mantes-la-Jolie gendarmerie. Squadron Leader D.M is shaping up and taking all possible precautions, but the announcement could not be more brutal: "Don't worry, but your mother's grave was desecrated overnight ".
He then has to travel by car, with the pain and sorrow one might imagine, to this lost little village of Yvelines, ironically named Boissy-sans-Avoir. "Without-Being either. What a sad name. ", notes Sarah Biasini. With a heavy heart, she did not forget to slip in her pocket the checkbook with which she pays the marble workers, two twin brothers who took over the stonemason business from their father, to whom Romy Schneider's family appealed for her death in 1982. This woman she loved more than anything, Sarah Biasini must bury her a second time thirty-five years later.
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