With Clémentine Deroudille, curator of the Romy Schneider exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française. Forty years after her death, Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 – May 29, 1982) is still as beloved and popular as ever. European actress, with a career that began in Germany and continued in France, she became a star thanks to films that forever marked the history of cinema. (Replay)
However, in recent years, the tragedy of the end of his life has taken precedence over the rest. It always sells better to present a woman as a bundle of neuroses, prone to melancholy and desperate to the bone. Especially if she was stunningly beautiful and one of the greatest actresses in the history of cinema.
► La Cinémathèque, Romy Schneider, from March 16 to July 31, 2022.
– Cinema Diary
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– Interview with Berni Goldblatt, on the occasion of the upcoming opening of CinéGuimbi in BoboDioulasso (Burkina Faso).