Starring Catherine Deneuve
11 Episodes
For nearly six decades, Catherine Deneuve has been the face of French cinema, the embodiment of its sophistication, allure, and cool glamour. Following her star-making turn in Jacques Demy’s THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, Deneuve’s porcelain beauty and aloof elegance caught the attention of some of the most renowned European directors of the 1960s and ’70s, including Luis Buñuel (BELLE DE JOUR, TRISTANA), François Truffaut (MISSISSIPPI MERMAID, THE LAST METRO), and Roman Polanski (REPULSION), all of whom could only begin to scratch the surface of her enigmatic magnetism. Since then, Deneuve has continued to entrance a new generation of post–New Wave French filmmakers like Arnaud Desplechin (A CHRISTMAS TALE), confirming her status as the reigning grande dame of Gallic cinema.
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01:30Episode 1
Starring Catherine Deneuve Teaser
Episode 1
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1:32:08Episode 2
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Episode 2
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1964 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Nino CastelnuovoThe angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a h...
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1:34:22Episode 3
Les créatures
Episode 3
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1966 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva DahlbeckOne of Agnès Varda least-seen films is also one of her most fascinating: an eccentrically imaginative science-fiction fantasia that touches on human nature, free will, and the creative process. Worki...
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1:40:11Episode 4
Belle de jour
Episode 4
Directed by Luis Buñuel • 1967 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel PiccoliCatherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a b...
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2:06:48Episode 5
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Episode 5
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1967 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Françoise DorléacJacques Demy followed up THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and...
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1:30:13Episode 6
Donkey Skin
Episode 6
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1970 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine SeyrigIn this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend o...
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1:36:20Episode 7
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Episode 7
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1973 • France
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Micheline PresleFeeling out of sorts, Marco (Marcello Mastroianni), an Italian driving instructor living in Paris, pays a visit to the doctor, who promptly diagnoses him as . . . four months pregnant. It’...
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2:11:52Episode 8
The Last Metro
Episode 8
Directed by François Truffaut • 1980 • France
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Jean PoiretGérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut’s gripping, humanist character st...
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1:06:57Episode 9
The Young Girls Turn 25
Episode 9
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1993 • France
For this documentary about the making of THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, filmmaker Agnès Varda, director Jacques Demy’s widow, returned to the town of Rochefort for the film’s twenty-fifth anniversary. In it, she interviews actors Catherine Deneuve, Jacque...
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1:45:15Episode 10
One Hundred and One Nights
Episode 10
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1995 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri GarcinA celebration of cinema’s centennial, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS finds Agnès Varda at her most playful. It is also perhaps her unlikeliest project: a star-studded comic fantasy with an extravagant...
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48:56Episode 11
Catherine Deneuve Interview
Episode 11
This portrait of Catherine Deneuve, shot during production for two films she made in the late 1970s, features extensive interviews with the iconic star.