Sophia Loren wowed the crowds and entertained photographers as she presented Cannes Classics at the annual 67th Film Festival yesterday (May 21).
The iconic Italian actress, who is set to turn 80 this year, wore a bright red ensemble and matching shawl as she posed for the cameras while being honoured at the festival's special selection, which was celebrating restored masterpieces and the heritage of film.
Loren won the Best Actress award for Two Women at Cannes in 1961, and went on to be a president of the jury in '66.
Fellow movie icons Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve have also returned to Cannes this year, so we take a look at classic pictures of the glamorous stars then and now below:
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren wears a white ballgown as she attends a screening at the festival back in 1955.
The actress wears a sleeveless green dress as she waves to photographers on...
The iconic Italian actress, who is set to turn 80 this year, wore a bright red ensemble and matching shawl as she posed for the cameras while being honoured at the festival's special selection, which was celebrating restored masterpieces and the heritage of film.
Loren won the Best Actress award for Two Women at Cannes in 1961, and went on to be a president of the jury in '66.
Fellow movie icons Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve have also returned to Cannes this year, so we take a look at classic pictures of the glamorous stars then and now below:
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren wears a white ballgown as she attends a screening at the festival back in 1955.
The actress wears a sleeveless green dress as she waves to photographers on...
- 5/22/2014
- Digital Spy
A delightful screwball comedy sees Catherine Deneuve blossom from 70s provincial housewife to rising political star
The French word potiche means a vase or vessel, often gaudily decorated and mostly of ornamental use. Until François Ozon's latest film, I wasn't aware of the word's derogatory meaning, to describe a woman with no real power or purpose, but after this film's success, I suspect the vernacular will have to alter to accommodate the irony of Catherine Deneuve's fine comic performance in the titular role.
You could say Luis Buñuel cast Deneuve as some kind of "potiche" as Séverine in Belle de Jour in 1967 and it has been impossible ever since for the male viewer to look at this prolific actress as anything other than a symbol of female potency, even as a sort of erotic threat. Ozon is surely trading on this iconography for a film that is a blend of boulevard farce,...
The French word potiche means a vase or vessel, often gaudily decorated and mostly of ornamental use. Until François Ozon's latest film, I wasn't aware of the word's derogatory meaning, to describe a woman with no real power or purpose, but after this film's success, I suspect the vernacular will have to alter to accommodate the irony of Catherine Deneuve's fine comic performance in the titular role.
You could say Luis Buñuel cast Deneuve as some kind of "potiche" as Séverine in Belle de Jour in 1967 and it has been impossible ever since for the male viewer to look at this prolific actress as anything other than a symbol of female potency, even as a sort of erotic threat. Ozon is surely trading on this iconography for a film that is a blend of boulevard farce,...
- 6/19/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Award-wining French film director best known for Tous les Matins du Monde
It is fair to say that the majority of audiences who saw the film Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World, 1991) – directed by Alain Corneau, who has died of lung cancer aged 67 – had previously never heard of (or heard) the music of the baroque composer and viola da gamba virtuoso Marin Marais. However, the lacuna was soon filled after this sensitive, painterly and vivid recreation of 17th-century French musical life had won seven Césars (France's Oscars), become an international success and resulted in a bestselling CD of the soundtrack by Le Concert des Nations ensemble.
Starring Gérard Depardieu as the older Marais, looking back on his reckless younger self (played by Depardieu's son, Guillaume), it remains Corneau's biggest success outside France. In fact, Tous les Matins du Monde, one of the few films...
It is fair to say that the majority of audiences who saw the film Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World, 1991) – directed by Alain Corneau, who has died of lung cancer aged 67 – had previously never heard of (or heard) the music of the baroque composer and viola da gamba virtuoso Marin Marais. However, the lacuna was soon filled after this sensitive, painterly and vivid recreation of 17th-century French musical life had won seven Césars (France's Oscars), become an international success and resulted in a bestselling CD of the soundtrack by Le Concert des Nations ensemble.
Starring Gérard Depardieu as the older Marais, looking back on his reckless younger self (played by Depardieu's son, Guillaume), it remains Corneau's biggest success outside France. In fact, Tous les Matins du Monde, one of the few films...
- 9/2/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Revered French film director Alain Corneau has died at the age of 67.
The movie-maker/writer, who worked with high profile stars including Gerard Depardieu and Monica Bellucci, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning.
The cause of his death was not known as WENN went to press, but he is believed to have been battling cancer.
Corneau's latest movie, Love Crime (Crime d'Amour) starring Kristin Scott Thomas, was released just two weeks ago.
He made his first film, France Inc, in 1973 and went on to carve out a successful career, working with Yves Montand on 1976's Police Python 357 and again on 1977's La Menace.
He directed Depardieu in 1984's Fort Saganne and their 1991 collaboration Tous Les Matins Du Monde won Corneau two coveted Cesar awards, for best film and best director.
The movie-maker/writer, who worked with high profile stars including Gerard Depardieu and Monica Bellucci, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning.
The cause of his death was not known as WENN went to press, but he is believed to have been battling cancer.
Corneau's latest movie, Love Crime (Crime d'Amour) starring Kristin Scott Thomas, was released just two weeks ago.
He made his first film, France Inc, in 1973 and went on to carve out a successful career, working with Yves Montand on 1976's Police Python 357 and again on 1977's La Menace.
He directed Depardieu in 1984's Fort Saganne and their 1991 collaboration Tous Les Matins Du Monde won Corneau two coveted Cesar awards, for best film and best director.
- 8/30/2010
- WENN
Alain Corneau is a minor filmmaker if only because it is difficult to find any thematic consistency in his oeuvre. After making handful of top class noir films between in the 1970s - like Police Python 357 andSerie Noire, he went on to make a completely different set of films - a Foreign Legion story set in the Sahara - Fort Saganne (1984) and a film about early classical music All the Mornings of the World(1991)....
- 7/19/2009
- by M. K. Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
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