The beauty of the real
Subtitle: what Hollywood can learn from contemporary French actresses
By: Mick LaSalle
Publisher: Stanford General Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780804768542
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Actresses; French Motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: Based on one-on-one interviews and the viewing of numerous films, Mick LaSalle here puts together a fascinating profile of recent generations of French film stars and an overview of their best work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : two myths; title: Teen rebellion; title: The young woman alone : Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, and Nathalie Baye; title: Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Béart, and the temptations of vanity; title: The shame of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; title: Sandrine Kiberlain; title: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, and La cérémonie; title: The allure of Hollywood; title: Alone at midlife : Nathalie Baye in the nineties; title: The French Meryl Streep; title: Agnès Jaoui; title: Marriage and adultery (same thing); title: Géraldine Pailhas and building a career; title: Isabelle Carré and madness; title: Les femmes d'un certain age; title: The new talent; title: France and America; title: Appendix one : how to sell French films in the United States; title: Appendix two : how to see French films in the United States.