Catherine Deneuve. Not made for marriage

Catherine Deneuve is one of the most beautiful women 20th century, French singer and film actress. I never acted in the theater because of stage fright. She was nominated 13 times for Best Actress by the César Film Awards and won twice. For her role in the film Indochina, Catherine could have received an Oscar for Best Actress, but she was beaten by Emma Thompson. Deneuve has won awards at the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. In 2008, she received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival as a special award for her achievements in art.

Biography of Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve was born in Paris on October 22, 1943. Her mother - famous actress Rene Simoneau, father is the no less famous French actor Maurice Dorleac. Katrin grew up with three sisters, who from childhood appeared on stage and acted in films.

Deneuve did not dream of being an actress. She always had stage fright, she grew up timid and silent, and loved to spend time reading and drawing. The parents of the future star provided their children with better education. The girls practiced dancing, singing, and learned languages and etiquette.

Françoise's older sister began to have a successful film career. For Deneuve, she was a role model. At the age of 14, Katrin decided to make her debut in the movie “Gymnasium Girls.” To avoid being compared to her sister, she abandoned her surname Dorleac and took her grandmother's maiden name.

Real fame and recognition came to Catherine Deneuve with the release of the film “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.” The musical conquered the Cannes Film Festival, and Catherine received star status. After this triumph, she had many leading roles, in which she revealed the images of different heroines.

In 1967, her sister Françoise died in a car accident. Deneuve was very upset by this tragedy. She continued acting, and soon she gained the status of the best French actress. The films “Indochina”, “Girls from Rochefort”, “Beauty of the Day”, “Dancing in the Dark”, “Eight Women” and others were very successful.

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Personal life of Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve has always been successful with men. At the age of 17, she began a whirlwind romance with Roger Vadim. He was 15 years older than her. Roger filmed her in his films and dreamed of making a real star out of the young beauty. Katrin fell in love with the director, ran away from home and moved to live with him. Soon their son Christian was born. Roger suggested that Deneuve legitimize the relationship, but she refused. Life together disappointed her, and the couple soon separated.

A couple of years later she met the famous British photographer David Bailey. It was the only man, with whom she agreed to go down the aisle. The husband introduced the actress to such directors as Truffaut, Polanski, Buñuel. The marriage to Bailey did not last long. They lived together for about three years and separated, but officially divorced after another four years. According to the actress, this union was doomed. Everyone lived their own lives. The best thing she got from this relationship was her knowledge of English.

In 1971, Catherine began communicating with Marcello Mastroianni. According to the documents, she was still married woman, but this did not interfere with their relationship. Mastroianni wanted to marry the actress, but she refused him. They had a daughter, Chiara, and four years later, Deneuve invited Marcello to remain friends.

The next passionate affair began between the movie star and Gerard Depardieu. They were together for ten years. Depardieu became the actress's lover and best friend. But this relationship has also exhausted itself.

Then came an affair with Alain Delon. They starred together in the movie "Cop." Delon seduced his colleague and immediately began giving interviews to journalists about how he had met his one and only. Deneuve was silent, and then burst out with negative comments about him. It turned out that the actors' connection was planned as part of a PR campaign. A deal was made with Alain, but Catherine knew nothing. As a result, the affair ended in a loud scandal.

The actress never married again. She publicly stated that, having significant life experience and raising her children, she received the right to live a full life and not answer to anyone. Among her latest suitors were chansonnier Yves Montand and the head of Canal+ Pierre Lescure.

A timid, shy girl, as a child she never dreamed of ever becoming an actress. Unlike her beautiful sister, who dreamed of cinema, Catherine Deneuve was modest in her desires. But fate chose her for the movie, and completely unexpectedly.

Catherine Deneuve is so beautiful in her own right that the movie she stars in doesn't even have to tell the story. I'm sure the viewer will be happy just to see Katrin's face

Francois Truffaut

BE YOURSELF A PYGMALION

Catherine Dorléac was born on a gloomy, rainy morning on October 22, 1943, in German-occupied Paris. In October 2011, she turned 68, but she still remains one of the most beautiful actresses in French cinema. She grew up on Boulevard Murat in a family of theater actors Maurice and René Dorleac. The parents tried to give their four daughters an excellent education and upbringing; the girls were taught languages, music, dancing and good manners. The whole family left Paris for the summer. And now Katrin spends more time in her country house and garden than anywhere else, and calls herself a “rural Frenchwoman.”

As a child, Katrin was not a leader; outwardly she looked timid and obedient. Perhaps only my father understood what temperament and strong character hidden behind the calmness of his daughter. At that time, Catherine did not even think about cinema, unlike her older, beautiful sister Françoise, who was very confident in herself and dreamed of cinema. Katrin grew up shy and silent; she studied diligently, loved to draw and read a lot. But fate does not ask, but chooses... A guest of the Dorléac family, director Andre Yunnebel invited a dark-haired fifteen-year-old girl to act as an extra in his film “Kittens,” and Catherine accepted the offer only because her beloved Françoise played there. She chose her mother’s surname, Deneuve, as a pseudonym. On the set, she was shy and repressed, and had a complex about her appearance. “For a very long time I was considered timid and narrow-minded. Imagine a pretty girl who is just a label”... All our complexes come from childhood. It is clear that Catherine saw herself in the eyes of those around her as a beautiful, stupid doll. She didn't know how to correct this dissonance. But very soon Katrin will prove to the whole world what she is really worth. That’s later, but for now she’s 17, and she meets director Roger Vadim. The master was shocked by both the beauty of the girl and what was discernible behind her - a strong inner core.

The master, who lit more than one star, began to direct Deneuve in his films (“Satan Rules the Ball There,” “Vice and Virtue”), where she got the roles of seductresses. But Katrina’s euphoria and increased self-confidence quickly melted away. Vadim probably wanted to make Catherine a new Brigitte Bardot. Once again he created a sex symbol, but did not become Pygmalion for the obstinate Galatea. Proud Catherine chose to choose her own path. What Roger Vadim sculpted from her was alien to her. Yes, she dyed her hair blonde, as he ordered, but she did not want to become the new babydoll. Despite the birth of her son Christian and the prospects that an alliance with the most famous director in France opened up for her, she left him.

Nothing in love surprises me, but everything amazes me

20-year-old Catherine, who was already responsible for the child, rejected a wealthy life with a rich and famous lover, who was also ready to marry, and set off on a solo voyage. Answering endless questions from the press “why?”, she said: “I am my own Pygmalion. Roger tried to fit all actresses into the Brigitte Bardot stereotype. Our films with him had practically no success.” Perhaps the director also needed a second Brigitte in love?.. Be that as it may, Deneuve and Vadim broke up, but fate, which decided at all costs to bring the girl Dorleac to the big cinema, again sent her to right place and in right time. The disappointment in love was compensated by Katrina's wild success in cinema.

Filming is best time in my life

A fateful meeting with director Jacques Damy ended with an invitation to main role in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The film received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964. And it was a real triumph. But the gifts from heaven did not end there - the man with whom Catherine fell passionately in love dreamed of only one thing: to lead his beloved down the aisle. It was the fashionable English photographer David Bailey. Finally she found her happiness.

WHAT'S AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG?

The husband immediately introduced Catherine Deneuve into his circle. She became part of the community of directors of the “new wave” - Roman Polanski, Luis Buñuel, Francois Truffaut, Claude Lelouch... They invite Catherine to star in their films. Roles in the films “Repulsion”, “Beauty of the Day”, “Tristan” became milestones for her. But the more successful my career was, the worse my personal life was. The couple continued to live their own lives, “and spent so little time together that there could be no other solution but separation,” Catherine Deneuve would later say. David lived in London, and Catherine was torn between two capitals, London and Paris, where she was filming and where her son Christian lived. Her first and last marriage lasted three years. “I have always believed that only the man who is next to you can solve all your problems and dispel your doubts. Everything happened differently with me.” Well, she is not the first and she will not be the last for whom the deception of these, in general, chimerical expectations is a good reason for divorce. “It seemed like life was giving me an endless exam, which I tried to pass, wanting to build it the way I saw fit.”

A perfectionist and a maximalist, a psychologist would say. She became tougher and colder, overcoming her own weaknesses and complexes. You can imagine what it was like for her to star in Buñuel’s film “Beauty of the Day,” where her heroine works in a brothel secretly from her husband, allowing her clients to realize any erotic fantasies, you can use one phrase from Catherine Deneuve: “I am extremely shy. You can't even imagine to what extent. I COULD NEVER IMAGINE THAT SOMEONE COULD LOOK INTO MY PURSE.”... There, behind the lining, are hidden her insecurities and fears and everything that she hides under the mask “ snow queen" She tried to justify herself: “I look cold because I’m blonde and I don’t have very active facial expressions. In fact, I am a man of passions”... As if trying to prove something to someone, Catherine Deneuve plunges headlong into the whirlpool of an affair with director Francois Truffaut. Two years later, she told him that it was all over between them and flew to America to star in the film “April Madness.”

What is marriage for if there is divorce?

And again triumph! Critics compared Catherine to Greta Garbo, and a Newsweek columnist wrote: “French actresses, like French wine, are not transportable. Except for Catherine Deneuve”... She returned to Europe - an actress who became a celebrity on the other side of the ocean. And at home she was already waiting new job. And - she didn’t know this yet - new love. The whole world soon started talking about this novel.

"IT ONLY HAPPEN TO OTHERS"

Something unimaginable was happening on the set of the film of the same name. The world-famous Italian Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve swirled in a crazy love tango. They spent several years dancing, mixed with a burning mixture of passion and disappointment. Bright, loud, surprisingly cheerful, Mastroianni loved widely, sweepingly and generously. Romantic meetings in Rome, Paris, Nice... It was a time of noisy feasts, endless parties and love dates. Marcello persuaded her to work less and rest more often. He gave Catherine a luxurious villa in Nice, and in return she handed him the keys to a luxury car. “What should I give you when you give birth to my child?” - he asked his beloved. She didn’t answer, and a year later she gave birth to a daughter, Chiara. And she refused to marry Marcello. “You already have a wife,” she said. That's how they lived. Mastroianni spent a week in Rome, a week in Paris, until one day he heard: “Our relationship has exhausted itself. Forgive and farewell."

Are feelings really dead? “Sometimes it seems to me that love is a complete pain. Tragic death the closest person, sister Françoise, became a nightmarish revelation for me: someday love will definitely die. The fear of losing loved ones has turned into an incurable phobia for me. Since then I have not given my heart to anyone. If you don’t have, you don’t lose,” Deneuve once confesses under pressure from journalists. The beautiful love story of this couple was discussed by almost half the planet, and reporters besieged both Deneuve and Mastroianni in droves... She did what she always did. The little girl, shocked by the death of her sister, grew up, but flatly refused to part with her childhood saving thought: since love can leave, one must always play ahead. Catherine Deneuve, it turns out, never knew what real freedom in a relationship was. How hard it is for a person to live, locked in a cage of his own psychological taboos! And never try to breathe deeply... Sitting at the bottom of a well, you see only part of the sky, but not the entire horizon.

The idea of growing old together is wonderful in itself, but not for me. She inspires fear in me

So, Marcello Mastroianni left, and Deneuve sometimes continued to come to the Latin Quarter of Paris, where they lived together, to wander alone through the narrow streets (a black wig and sunglasses changed Catherine’s appearance).

She could only talk about the vicissitudes of love with her best friend Gerard Depardieu: “I liked to talk about love only with Depardieu. We drained all the stocks of dry red wine in his cellar. And they chatted, sitting on the balcony, all day long. Of course, no one will believe this, but then I realized that true friendship is love. There is a strong male friendship between us. But you still won’t know anything more,” Deneuve told reporters. Depardieu, in turn, expressed himself in a very original way: “Catherine is the man I would like to become”...

HOW MUCH DOES A KISS COST?

Two stars in the same sky - that’s what they called Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve, who starred together in the film “Policeman”. A couple of weeks after filming, they had dinner together, and one day the paparazzi photographed them having breakfast at Delon’s villa. Catherine, as usual, was silent, and Delon chattered incessantly, giving interviews to all newspapers. Yes, he met his only love, without whom he can no longer imagine his life. The tabloids printed copies non-stop, giving the most beautiful couple the front pages, and then a scandal broke out, which further fueled interest in this woman. “Thanks to the chatty assistants, I found out that our affair was included in the estimate for the film’s PR campaign. Only Alena was warned about this and offered a deal, and I kissed for free. To be honest, Alain is a disgusting kisser. I don't understand why women love him so much. He tried to justify himself to me and said something about a bet and a bad joke.” As a result, only the lazy did not throw a spear at Delon; the film “Policeman” failed miserably.

MADEMOISELLE

Catherine Deneuve never remarried. Over the years, she demanded to call herself “Mademoiselle” and allowed herself to have affairs with whomever she wanted, whenever she wanted. “I felt responsible for myself very early on. I left my parents and gave birth to a child when I was not even 20 years old. And now that my children have grown up, real youth has finally arrived for me, which was not there at the time when it was supposed to be. Everything turned out topsy-turvy for me.” “Why are you so against the word “madam”? - journalists ask. “It seems to me that the prefix madam is like an extra wrinkle: it immediately makes you ten years older,” she replies.

Those with whom she started working in films have long since left the distance, but Catherine Deneuve is still “at the top.” “I gave birth to and raised two children without being married and without interrupting my work in cinema,” the actress is proud of herself. From Monday to Friday she lives in Paris, and spends the weekend in a country house. She does not like to sunbathe, as ultraviolet radiation ages the skin. For the same reason, she does not overuse makeup. Contrary to the unwritten French law, he does not drink wine at dinner, leaving this pleasure for the evening. He drinks a lot of coffee a day (“a divine drink”!) and smokes like a locomotive (“if I quit, I’ll get better right away”). “I am a dreamer at heart. And in life too. I know that my appearance tells a completely different story. But I have no desire to dissuade people that I am not at all what I seem,” she says.

CATHERINE DENEUVE - LEMON TREE

In France, Catherine Deneuve is called the “ice maiden.” As mysterious as a rosebud, she compares herself to lemon tree. Perhaps because, like this tree, it needs care and special conditions for creativity.

For me there is a past tense, but there is nothing past

The lemon tree and Catherine Deneuve are selfish. The tree bears fruit only when there is sun, moisture and a good attitude. An actress creates only when she decides whether the role is right for her. Françoise Sagan once said about her: “I never heard her talk about her art with tears in her voice, I never saw her in an apron at the stove, stirring bechamel. There is no stupidity, no weakness, no anger, no contempt in her.” One dignity and restraint. Director Roger Vadim, whose wives all became movie stars, wrote: “She was created to rule, and was convinced that she was always right. She is smart, not devoid of sensuality and humor, which is why it was so easy to fall under her charm before it became clear that one must always say “yes”. Only in rare moments of confusion did she seem like a weak and vulnerable creature.”

"Are you happy?" one journalist asked Catherine Deneuve. - “Not at all. I was happy 45 years ago when I starred in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. And now I just love life."

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Jean-Paul Gaultier and Catherine Deneuve after the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture fall-winter 2017-18 show
Paris Haute Couture Week is nearing its end: one of the last to show his collection today is “enfant terrible,” the “enfant terrible” of modern fashion, Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Maestro Gaultier is a recognized master of provocation. Balancing on a very fine line, each Gaultier collection is a challenge to public taste and generally accepted canons of beauty and femininity. However, there are plenty of admirers of his talent - and primarily thanks to the same provocation.

This time, Gaultier’s favorite technique—the desire for androgyny—changes greatly. It degrades to short puffy unisex vests and a couple more wardrobe items. The rest is typical women's clothes: long coats, short skirts, wraparound kimonos.

The evolution of color in the collection is interesting: it all starts with the most popular color this Week - gray. It appears on double-breasted jackets, as if taken from male shoulder, complex skirts, gradient coats.

Then the gray disappears, giving way to black, which unfolds on the catwalk on a grand scale, decorating trousers, jackets, complex overalls and shoes. As the play progresses, beige and red are added to it: the first is responsible for the theatricality of what is happening, and the second, together with a bright purple tint, makes one remember the 80s - the time of Gaultier’s creative heyday.

Then fuchsia comes to the fore in matte and glossy versions; khaki, yellow and a whole palette of other colors. Towards the end, silver also appears, thus creating a classic dramatic ring composition.

The show also ends according to all the laws of drama - Coco Rocha appears on the podium in a golden and super-futuristic jumpsuit, with an almost transparent mini-dress on top. Can this output be considered wedding dress We don’t know how Gautier sees him now. But one thing is for sure: this image in particular and the entire collection in general can be studied for hours.

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Three men asked for her hand in marriage, she agreed to one, and then regretted it. Why does the legend of French and world cinema value freedom so much?

She grew up in theater family, but never aspired to acting career. The middle of three sisters, Catherine was the only one who was wary of the stage and made no effort to continue the dynasty. She first came to the set thanks to her older sister, Françoise Dorleac.

Out of place

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Françoise was only a year and a half older than Catherine. They grew up in the same room and were very close. When her older sister was already busy acting in films, Katrin only played in amateur productions.
On the set of the film “Doors Slam” (1961), the heroine Françoise had a younger sister. And she suggested sister Catherine for this role.
Since then, both sisters begin to regularly act in films, and Catherine takes her grandmother’s maiden name, Deneuve, as a pseudonym, deciding that one actress Dorleac is enough for France. Everything is going as well as possible: the youngest wakes up as a world celebrity after the premiere of “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (1964), the eldest begins an international career, starring in Roman Polanski’s “Dead End”.
Everything was interrupted by an absurd tragic accident. In the summer of 1967, the sisters were supposed to meet on the Cote d'Azur; Françoise was driving a car to Nice airport, late for her flight. On a dangerous section of the road, she lost control: the car crashed and caught fire. The girl died on the spot.
“I am tormented by a terrible feeling of guilt because it was she who persuaded me to act in films, although this was her destiny,” Catherine Deneuve once said in an interview.

Love and career

The Girls from Rochefort (1966) After the death of Françoise, the last film in which they played together, “The Girls from Rochefort,” was released.
The audience's interest in the young actress does not wane, and pretty soon Catherine Deneuve is filming only with the best directors in France.
One of them was Roger Vadim. They met when she was only 17. He is twice as old and crazy about the young actress. Of course, she ran away from home and settled with her lover.
After the birth of their son Christian, Roger Vadim proposed to her, but Catherine refused. Even then, despite her youth and the precarious position of the young actress, she began to understand: marriage was not for her.
Pretty soon Deneuve became disillusioned with this relationship and left Roger. And two years later she got married.

Marriage on paper

For the Two of Us (1979) Her chosen one was British photographer David Bailey. There was nothing traditional at the wedding. white dress bride, no romance - but Mick Jagger himself became the groom's best man.
Officially they were married for 7 years. In fact, Deneuve left her husband a year after the wedding - it was then that she was finally convinced that marriage was not for her.
“This is not a question of faith at all, it is a question the right choice. Because only in this case does marriage work. It’s just that nowadays, when it’s so easy to get divorced, marriage is no longer an institution that has real meaning,” says the actress.
After her divorce from David, she will say: the best thing about their marriage was the opportunity to learn English.
But the lack of a stamp in the passport was never an obstacle for Deneuve to love or have children. Her second child, daughter Chiara, was born from a relationship with Italian actor and director Marcello Mastroianni.

Impregnable fortress

Catherine Deneuve and Marcello MastroianniThey met on the set of the film “It Only Happens to Others.” 49-year-old Marcello, who had a wife and many mistresses, disappeared as soon as he saw the cold beauty of Deneuve. For the first time in his life, he not only had an affair - he demanded a divorce from his all-forgiving wife Flora.
She agreed, and Mastroianni moved from Rome to Paris, closer to his beloved. All the couple's acquaintances noticed how happy and beautiful Katrin was in those days. They lived together in her house, went to restaurants and dance halls, and almost never left each other.
This continued until Marcello made his main mistake: proposed Deneuve to become his wife. She answered briefly “No”, packed her things and left.
But Mastroianni did not give up. Returning to Rome for a while, he realized that he could not live without his French wife, and agreed to her conditions: to be together, but not married.
In 1970, European journalists published a sensation: Catherine Deneuve was pregnant by Marcello Mastroianni! Everyone joked that this was the last resort he hoped to lure her down the aisle. But it didn’t work either: after the birth of her daughter Chiara, Katrin’s decision remained unchanged. Their relationship began to deteriorate and finally ended a year after the birth of their daughter.

Now that Catherine Deneuve is already over 70, she calmly admits that her life has developed in the best possible way. She still sometimes acts in films, lives in her beloved France, plants flowers, and raises her grandchildren.
And he categorically refuses to write memoirs: “I prefer to live and, yes, go on dates, rather than waste time describing them.”