BERNADETTE LAFONT, AND GOD CREATED THE FREE WOMAN

BERNADETTE LAFONT, ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME

By Esther HOFFENBERG

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Biography - Completed 2016

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema's most atypical actress.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2016
Cannes Classics
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Biography, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 65 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Esther HOFFENBERG
    • Producer(s)
    • Esther HOFFENBERG (Lapsus)
    • Synopsis
    • 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. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.