Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Catherine Deneuve



French actress Deneuve was born in 1943 to two actors, so the cinema came naturally to her and she started making films in the 60's. The most famous were Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Belle Du Jour,
(color photo) in which she played a bored housewife who spent her days in a high-class brothel.
She has aged very gracefully and is still quite beautiful, and became a much better actress over time, getting an Oscar nomination for best actress in Indochine (1992).
I just realized how much Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched resembles Deneuve.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Dominique Sanda


Dominique was born Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris, in 1948. She appeared in some major award winning European films such as Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), and De Sica’s Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971).
Unfortunately for us, she didn't make very many films, and for some unknown reason, finding info and pics of her is not too easy, she’s more unforgettable to some of us than the world at large apparently.