The icily beautiful French goddess Catherine Denueve is celebrated here in Optimum's Screen Icons series with a box-set of films that span the full range of her illustrious 45-year career so far. Umbrellas Of Cherbourg was the film that made Deneuve a star and introduced her to the world. A conventional love story made completely original by all the dialogue being sung and a rainbow of colours reflecting the radiance of the story and characters alike. Umbrellas won the Palme D'Or in Cannes in 1964. Belle du Jour Undoubtedly Luis Buuel's most accessible film Belle... de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago. Denueve plays a bored and sexually frustrated housewife who becomes a part-time prostitute and begins a dangerous relationship with a young gangster. Donkey Skin is a wonderfully bizarre film from Jacques Demy a unique synthesis of Jean Cocteau and Walt Disney. Ahead of its time and strikingly modern in its production design it's also a warts and all fairytale ripe with incorrect royalism and medieval misogyny. Deneuve plays the dual role of the King's wife and daughter. Manon 70 a 1960's version of an 18th century French novel and a 19th century Italian opera Denueve plays the confused Manon torn between a young but penniless lover and an older richer suitor whose generosity she finds very tempting... Ma Saisson Preferee An Andre Techine family drama starring Daniel Auteuil. [show more]
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Five films starring French screen goddess Catherine Denueve. 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' (1964) is story of lost love in which the dialogue is sung rather than spoken. In the French seaside town of Cherbourg, Genevieve (Deneuve, in her first screen role) discovers that she is pregnant by her boyfriend, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). When Guy is drafted into the army, Genevieve marries diamond merchant Roland Cassard (Marc Michel), even though she still loves Guy. She is destined for one last encounter with her true love, in a frosty Esso petrol station. 'Belle de Jour' (1967) is a surreal tale directed by Luis Bunuel. Deneuve plays a bored doctor's wife who hears of a brothel operating near her home. Struck by a sudden desire, she goes to the brothel and offers her services in the afternoons. She encounters a wide range of characters, eventually running into a friend of her husband... 'Donkey Skin' (1970) is a fairytale drama directed by Jacques Demy. The King (Jean Marais) is distraught at the death of his wife (Deneuve), and promises never to marry anyone less beautiful than her. But when he is compelled to marry his own daughter (also played by Deneuve), her fairy godmother manages to save her from this incestuous fate by making her demand impossible gifts, including a suit of clothes made from the skin of a magical donkey that ensures the land's prosperity. 'Manon 70' (1968) is a screen version of the 18th century French novel and the 19th century Italian opera 'Manon Lescaut'. Deneuve plays the confused Manon, torn between a young but penniless lover and an older, richer suitor whose generosity she finds very tempting. Finally, in the much later film 'Ma Saison Preferee' (1993), Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil play a middle-aged brother and sister looking after their dying mother in the last year of her life. Director and co-writer Andre Techine presents an examination of adult family relationships in this serious and personal film.
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