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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816490303321

Autore

LaSalle Mick

Titolo

The beauty of the real : what Hollywood can learn from contemporary French actresses / / Mick LaSalle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford General Books, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8207-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaSalleMick

Disciplina

791.43/65220944

Soggetti

Motion picture actors and actresses - France

Actresses - France

Women in motion pictures

Motion pictures, French - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : two myths -- Teen rebellion -- The young woman alone : Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, and Nathalie Baye -- Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Béart, and the temptations of vanity -- The shame of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi -- Sandrine Kiberlain -- Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, and La cérémonie -- The allure of Hollywood -- Alone at midlife : Nathalie Baye in the nineties -- The French Meryl Streep -- Agnès Jaoui -- Marriage and adultery (same thing) -- Géraldine Pailhas and building a career -- Isabelle Carré and madness -- Les femmes d'un certain age -- The new talent -- France and America -- Appendix one : how to sell French films in the United States -- Appendix two : how to see French films in the United States.

Sommario/riassunto

Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent-a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real.This book