Catherine Deneuve in October 2019. – Francois Mori / AP / SIPA
Victim of a stroke while filming In his lifetime by Emmanuelle Bercot at the end of 2019, Catherine Deneuve was able to return to the plateau after a few months of rest. It even appeared for an advertisement in April for the 15th anniversary of the Leboncoin site. But The Parisian bet on his comeback for the next Cannes film festival. According to the newspaper, which devotes its weekend front page to him, “the professionals who have discovered In his lifetime in preview do not see how the festival could miss this great American melody ”, the story of an accompaniment at the end of life, of a theater teacher condemned by cancer.
Small revolution, she quit smoking
“It’s a miracle,” confides Pierre Lescure, president of the Cannes film festival and former companion in the 1980s. It’s always excellent news when someone can return to work a few months after a stroke, which leaves so much people on the floor. “Catherine Deneuve is indeed” very, very well “according to those around her.
She has since not only finished filming In his lifetime, but chained with the film Saint Habib by Benoît Mariage in Brussels, of which she holds the top bill. The only change, of size for the actress, is The Parisian : “She swapped the fine Vogue she consumed with ardor for a thick red electronic cigarette”.
If she does not have a new shoot on her agenda, the actress would multiply the meetings with producers and the readings of scripts, with already a possible “it turns” in 2022. “She lived a test, but she still has plenty of films to play ”, summarizes Pierre Salvadori who directed it in In the court in 2013.