If we appear again at the long movie tape that this prestigious profession has been, we see about 121 movies functioning via, a range of hits on the billboards, from the early days on television in the 1960s, to the periods when it was something but prevalent for a actress of her caliber. It was introduced in 1939 by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, one particular of the silent masters, and he saved the song from this get of “Girls in Danger” with the title of her character, Presle, whom she preferred to her, Chassagne.
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But if his most unforgettable roles day back to the late 1940s – “Falbalas”, by Jacques Becker, who gave his vocation to the couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier, and “Le Diable au corps” by Autant-Lara , with Gérard Philipe, whom he experienced discovered in the theater and who had proposed for the position – his previous shoot to date only dates back to 2014. It was “Do you want it or not”, with his daughter, director Tonie Marshall, who died in 2020, the only woman to have at any time won the César for directing (for “Vénus Beauté (institut)” in which her mother definitely performed).
His filmography? A directory of the largest
We remember in passing that this so renowned “Satan in the overall body” had its earth premiere in Bordeaux in 1947, at the Fémina which was then a cinema.
Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle in “Le Diable au corps”, in 1947. Equally were being born in 1922.
To notify about his filmography is to recite the record of the biggest administrators, and not only French types.
If he began with the Austrian Pabst, he then toured with Gance, Grémillon, L’Herbier, Allégret, Guitry, Lang, Losey … And if he aligns all the ranks of those who have been chastised by Truffaut under the phrase “French of high quality “- Duvivier, Delannoy, Autant-Lara – she way too did not miss the appointment with the New Wave, collaborating a number of instances with Jacques Demy, who in individual designed her the mother of the prince of” Peau d’Âne “., with Chabrol, de Broca in the delightful “King of Hearts” and particularly Rivette, who staged it in 1966 in “La Religieuse”, with Anna Karina.
This cinephile actress confessed in 2004 obtaining an honorary César: “My greatest like story is cinema”
In the early 1950s, Micheline Presle explored the planet of Hollywood for a while, married an American director, William Marshall, father of her daughter Tonie. Right until the 1970s, she will also be capturing abroad, illustrated in certain by a film that Arte transmits right until the end of August and where by he replies to Marcello Mastroianni, “The Assassin”, by Elio Petri.
“Daily life is a bicycle”
In the 1980s she offered herself in Gérard Frot-Coutaz’s “Wonderful but stormy weather conditions at the conclude of the day”, attractive domestic scenes with Claude Piéplu, who performed “Who’s Fearful of Virginia Woolf” at the tables. She meets her daughter Tonie, nevertheless an actress, who will shortly go on to direct, giving her mother a purpose in every single film.
With his daughter, director Tonie Marshall, in Bordeaux in 2003, in which she been given the Obscure d’or from the Global Feminine Film Festival. Stephane Lartigue Archive
Micheline Presle, who has handed the age of awards to become a legend, was even so nominated for César in 1989 for “I want to go home”, by her modern day Alain Resnais. César that she will not win, but a statuette that she will locate, in the kind of a César of honor for her whole career in 2004. She Then she admits: “My best enjoy story is cinema.”
Employed to Angoulême
Simply because this actress, who appreciates how to give young administrators a possibility in the autumn of her profession, even for a shorter movie, is perhaps a legend, but constantly an informed cinephile. This weekend, in “The Parisian”, she admitted “I have often felt closer to directors, screenwriters, writers, than to actors”. Among her old buddies of hers, Queneau or Cocteau, from whom she borrows what she today presents as her philosophy of hers, a funny phrase in the condition of a pirouette, “life is a bicycle”.
“I like assembly quite unique folks.”
In this interview from 1961, Micheline Presle talks about her experience in Hollywood and the impact her private everyday living has had on her expert lifetime.
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This cinephilia, and his friendship for his agent Dominique Besnehard, led him to don the Angoulême Francophone Movie Competition on the baptismal font. From the very first edition she was aspect of the jury, of which she was nominated a life member by Dominique Besnehard, and at the commencing of the pageant she frequently observed her in the halls and streets of Angoulême the place she appreciated to stroll.
Santa Cherie and occupied girl
This Monday, 22 August, we do not know if Micheline Presle will blow out 100 candles, but we can imagine that, normally hungry for lifetime and superior items, she will not miss out on her slice of cake. A lot of of her admirers of her will assume of her, because she has carved out a significant viewers past the cinema. From 1965 to 1970, she, who from the early sixties experienced not hesitated to change for the smaller display screen, played one of her greatest hits, as Eve Lagarde in the cleaning soap opera “Les Saintes Cheries”.
With Daniel Gélin, she also grew to become a tiny monitor determine in 1965. ADLTV
Spruce, spicy and sassy, has thus seduced an entire generation, with a genius for light-weight comedy and passing a concept of emancipation of gals. Nothing at all astonishing for the female who did not hesitate to signal the well-known manifesto, afterwards regarded as the “343 sluts” and pass the baton to be broadly dispersed.
Right now Micheline Presle has moved to the National Home of Artists, in Nogent-sur-Marne. For her, who has been on tour with Duvivier, it could conjure up “The Stop of the Working day,” a bitter drama about old actors reunited in a retirement household. But with it inside the walls, any twilight atmosphere is to be overlooked. The centenary lives in the present and picks the roses of existence.
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