Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman (6.5)

Movie · 2016 · 1 h 05 min · Documentary

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.

Directed by: Esther Hoffenberg

Starring Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Michel Demonteix, Anna Medveczky, Solène Madveczky-Lafont, Juliette Madveczky-Lafont, Brigitte Bardot, Ingrid Bergman, Catherine Deneuve

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