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The intimate memoirs of the coolest blonde in cinema history.The startling portrayal of an icy, sexually adventurous housewife in Louis Buñuel's Belle du Jourestablished Catherine Deneuve as one of the most remarkable and compelling actresses of her generation. Forty years later, Deneuve is still widely regarded as one of the grande dames of French cinema. Despite her international appeal, however, Denueve has always chosen to avoid the ferocious glare of Hollywood and seldom allows the public into her private life. In these memoirs, Deneuve takes the reader behind the scenes of her life and career in this fascinating collection of seven previously unpublished diaries that she kept while filming abroad. In her own words, Deneuve charts the shooting of films such as The April Fools; Tristana, directed by Luis Buñuel; Indochine; and Dancer in the Dark. Including a never before published interview with famed director Pascal Bonitzer, this memoir is an intimate look into Deneuve's life both on and off screen, and is every bit as riveting as her movie persona. ... Read more

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3.5 Stars... Interesting insights but we want more!
Catherine Deneuve is one of the all-time leading stars of the French (and even European) movie industry. This book was published in France in 2005 (under the title "A L'Ombre de Moi-Meme") and now finally gets a proper release in the US.

In "The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve: Close Up and Personal", Deneuve shares with us the diaries she kept while shooting 6 movies (Dancer in the Dark; East-West; Nightwind; Indochine; Tristana; and The April Fools). It is not clear on what basis these particular movies were chosen as presumably Deneuve kept a diary during many of her other movies. The observations from Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (in which Deneuve plays a supporting role and singer Bjork plays the main character) make for compelling reading. Towards the end of the troubled shoot, Deneuve writes "I'm pretty discouraged, I don't care anymore. Bjork turns up around 11, which isn't unusual, but without a word of explanation or apology to me or anyone, not a single word. There's no point in expecting logical behavior from her; you have to accept her for what she is, wild and unique". Wow! Many other diary entries are much more mundaine, take this one from the "Indochine" set: "Back to studio to try on the Indo-Chinese outfit I would like to wear in the pagoda scene where I go to make offerings after Camille disappears." But a bit later Deneuve writes "I packed my trunk with bread, biscuits, honey and special long-life yoghurts from the French Institute for Agronomy Research. Even the rats like them--one evening in my room, I heard and then saw them carefully cutting through the metal lids--but I like rodents". Say what?Deneuve served on the Cannes Jury in 1994 (with Clint Eastwood as President of the Jury), and shares her diary entries from that experience, but unfortunately nothing from the jury's deliberations.

In all, this is quite enjoyable if you're a movie buff and have seen most of these movies. Unfortunately, the diaries run only to page 120. What follows is a 50 page interview with Pascal Bonitzer, which is pretty insightful (Deneuve revealing she started writing movie set diaries to deal with the boredom on the set) but the interview is really not why I got this book for, give us more of Deneuve's diaries! Also included is a detailed filmography of Deneuve. ... Read more

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Deneuve's startling portrayal of an icy, sexually adventurous housewife in Belle de Jour helped to establish her as one of the most remarkable and compelling actresses of her generation. Forty years on and Deneuve is still widely regarded as one of the greatest and most international grandes dames of French cinema. Despite her international appeal, however, Deneuve has always chosen to avoid the ferocious glare of Hollywood and seldom allows the public into her private life.In CLOSE UP AND PERSONAL, Deneuve gives her fans an exclusive look behind the scenes of her life and career in this fascinating collection of seven previously unpublished diaries that she kept while filming abroad. Deneuve charts the shooting of films such as The April Fools co-starring Jack Lemmon; Tristana directed by the great Luis Bunuel; Indochine, shot in Vietnam, and Lars von Trier's acclaimed Dancer in the Dark, co-starring Bjork. Including an exclusive interview with famous director Pascal Bonitzer, CLOSE UP AND PERSONAL offers an intimate and revealing insight into Deneuve's life both on- and off-screen. ... Read more

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France's Marianne and the Ice Maiden of the Republic
French legend Catherine rivals Bardot in international acclaim and continues to grace the spotlight while Brigitte is in seclusion. Both muses of Roger Vadim, the one-time spokesmodel for Chanel No. 5 is an enigma to still. A bio on who is behind one of the screen'smost famous foreign film actresses. ... Read more

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Bettina Rheims has been one of the most acclaimed woman photographers of France since the early 80s, when she first showed her sensational female nudes and portraits. Film stars, actresses and artists, models, friends, country fair acrobats and strippers— known and unknown women have posed in front of her lens during the past twenty years. Female Trouble, first published in 1989 by Schirmer/Mosel, presents a selection of some one hundred photographs—brilliant studies on womankind mostly in black and white, her favored technique mastered with a unique subtlety.The common denominator of this collection of photographs is Rheims’ sensitive and delicate relation with her sitters, revealing an extraordinary originality, empathy, sense of style and feeling for both the manifold facets of femininity and pictorial eroticism. The plates are preceded by an introductory essay by Catherine Deneuve. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: , born 22 October 1943) is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion (1965) and Belle de jour (1967). Deneuve won two César Awards for her performances in The Last Metro (1980) and Indochine (1992), for which she was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993. Considered one of France's most successful actresses, she has appeared in only four American movies, most notably the 1983 cult classic The Hunger. In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, Un conte de Noël. Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris, as the third of four daughters to French stage and screen actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve. Deneuve was raised Catholic. Her three sisters are actress Françoise Dorléac (who died in a car crash on 26 June 1967), Sylvie Dorléac and Danielle Dorléac. Deneuve made her film debut with a small role in Les Collégiennes (1957). She subsequently appeared in several films including under director Roger Vadim, starting with Vice and Virtue (1963). The film that brought her to stardom was Jacques Demy's 1964 musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, which led to additional prominent roles in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967). In the Polanski film, Deneuve first portrayed the character archetype for which she would be nicknamed the "ice maiden", an emotionally distant and mysterious woman; her work for Buñuel would be her most famous. Deneuve remained active in European films throughout the 1960s and 70s, but limited her appearances in American movies of the period to The April Fools (1969) with Jack Lemmon and Hustle (1975) with Burt Reynolds. Her significant films at the t... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=45379 ... Read more

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Selections from Duras' The Little Horses of Tarquinia, French Language Audiobook, 71 minutes. Read in French by by the great actress Catherine Deneuve.Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia Marguerite DurasLu par Catherine Deneuve« Dans un petit village d'Italie, situé au pied d'une montagne au bord de la mer, dans la chaleur écrasante du plein été, deux couple passent des vacances comme chaque été : Gina et Ludi, Jacques, Sarah et l'enfant. D'autres amis sont là, dont Diana. Ils se baignent, se parlent, s'ennuient...Dans la montagne, au-dessus du village, un jeune homme a sauté sur une mine. Ses parents là-haut veillent."Qu'est-ce qui manque à tous ces amis ? demande DianaPeut-être l'inconnu, dit Sarah." » ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Nathalie Baye, Ariane Ascaride, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot, Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani, Marion Cotillard, Simone Signoret, Isabelle Carré, Dominique Blanc, Juliette Binoche, Fanny Ardant, Yolande Moreau, Miou-Miou, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sylvie Testud, Anémone, Emmanuelle Devos, Carole Bouquet, Sabine Azéma, Karin Viard, Marina Hands, Élodie Bouchez, Anne Parillaud. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Jeanne Moreau est une actrice, chanteuse et réalisatrice française, née le 23 janvier 1928 à Paris en France. Elle est la première femme élue à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France depuis 2000 (fauteuil créé en 1998 dans la section Création artistique pour le cinéma et l'audiovisuel). Elle naît en 1928. Sa mère d'origine anglaise est danseuse et son père gérant de la brasserie de La Cloche d'or, au coin de la rue Fontaine, à Paris. Après avoir passé une partie de son enfance à Vichy, elle achève ses études secondaires à Paris et commence à suivre, à l'insu de ses parents, les cours de théâtre de Denis d'Inès, alors doyen de la Comédie-Française. Elle entre six mois plus tard au Conservatoire de Paris. En 1949, elle épouse le réalisateur Jean-Louis Richard avec lequel elle a un fils, Jérôme Duvon. En 1951, Orson Welles la remarque. Elle se remarie avec Teodoro Rubanis en 1966 et divorce un an plus tard, s'établissant avec le réalisateur britannique Tony Richardson. En 1977, après un troisième mariage avec le réalisateur américain William Friedkin (la relation ne durera que deux ans), elle part vivre à New York et découvre le livre Solstice de Joyce Carol Oates, une histoire d'amitié entre deux femmes. Jeanne Moreau veut en faire son troisième film, a...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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