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Catherine Deneuve: Performances
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French actress Catherine Deneuve has become a French institution. The extraordinary beauty has appeared in nearly 100 films with unforgettable performances in such films as The Umbrellas The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Belle du Jour and Indochine.
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This film charts the slow descent of a French girl, Carol, played by Catherine Deneuve, into madness and horror. The acting in this film is superb, and especially by Deneuve, who brings to her part a delicate balance of vulnerability and strangeness. Right from the start, there is a sense that this beautiful, introverted, seemingly harmless girl, is not 'quite all there.' Give her a slight push, and she will tumble into total madness. As a performance, it is reminiscent of Anthony Perkins in Psycho.
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You have to go back to 1991 - to Indochine, directed by Régis Wargnier - to find a Deneuve film that was both a critical and popular success. (The film won the Oscar for best foreign movie.) Deneuve gives a powerful, emotionally understated performance as a plantation owner in Vietnam's final years as a French colony.
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