The actress Bernadette Lafont, Monday, July 22 hospitalized after collapsing while she was in Grau-du-Roi, Gard, died at the age of 74 at the University Hospital of Nîmes, Thursday, July 25.
Born October 26, 1938 in Nîmes (Gard), the daughter of a pharmacist was originally interested in dance while dreaming of cinema. With her first husband, actor Gérard Blain, she met the young filmmakers of the New Wave, François Truffaut in 1957 who offered him his first role in the short film The Mistons and Claude Chabrol for The Beau Serge, a success.
Sensual brunette with an incredible gift of the gab and a very distinctive voice, colorful character in spontaneous play, Bernadette Lafont became in the late 50s the face of the New Wave, still turning The Curious Girl Nelly Kaplan, A beautiful girl like me to François Truffaut, or The Mother and the Whore, Jean Eustache.
Caesars
Alternating sharp and comedy movies, the actress became an unavoidable actress of French cinema of The Hangover the other Pierre Tchernia with Michel Serrault and Jean Poiret in 1979 The Cheeky, Claude Miller, with Charlotte Gainsbourg 1985, for which she won the Cesar for Best Supporting Actress.
Also crowned an honorary César in 2003 for his entire career, which has over a hundred films, she recently joined Alain Chabat and Charlotte Gainsbourg for Lend me your hand and in 2006 the First Star in 2009, Lucien Jean-Baptiste.
In addition to film, she also went up on the stage, as with Tower Defense, Argentina Copi, in 1981 or 2002, or 2006 if it again, Laurent Ruquier.
Officer of the Legion of Honor, Bernadette Lafont had three children. His youngest daughter Pauline, actress who had marked the spirits in "Summer sloping" Gerard Krawczyk in 1987, died accidentally in 1988 at the age of 25.
The actress had been a great success this year in Paulette, where she camped a retiree who starts selling marijuana to get by financially. Released in January, the film has attracted over 1 million spectators. Bernadette Lafont The holidays should turn the little Nicolas, which is scheduled for release in July 2014.
Face of the NEW WAVE
After the announcement of his death, the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, noted that "through his roles as women elegant and modern, including the unforgettable Mary [in the movie Eustachian], she played with a grace particular, the Parisian love with love and freedom. " The President of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob, expressed his "deep sorrow", speaking of "a huge loss for our film."
"She was an essential and unique actress cinematic landscape (...) The authenticity and originality will fail," said the president of the National Film Centre, Frédérique Bredin. The Socialist Party has paid tribute to a "bright and warm actress" who "also embodied another 'new wave': the empowerment of women" and had signed the Manifesto of the 343 in favor of abortion.
"It gives us this liberating insolence, these bursts of freedom, so characteristic of a life like the movies," said the Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti.
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