BERNADETTE LAFONT ET DIEU CRÉA LA FEMME LIBRE

(BERNADETTE LAFONT, AND GOD CREATED THE FREE WOMAN)
Esther HOFFENBERG
  • 2016
  • Cannes Classics
  • Documentaries about Cinema

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity.

Directed by : Esther HOFFENBERG
Year of production: 2016
Durée : 65 minutes

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  • ARTE FRANCE France

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  • INA – INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L’AUDIOVISUEL France

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