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Catherine Deneuve: Years
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Catherine Deneuve will head the international jury that will award the coveted Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival. The decision was made during a board meeting of the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film competition.
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There was certainly no national hue and cry against Deneuve a couple of years ago when she admitted taking cash to make public appearances with a doubtful Algerian businessman, Rafik Khalifa. There was nothing legally wrong in that, except Deneuve admitted that she had not declared the money to the tax authorities. She was ... mildly criticised last year for accepting money to go to a festival in Carinthia, the Austrian province run by the ultra-nationalist, Jörg Haider.
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In 1971, Deneuve signed the Manifesto of the 343 (Manifeste des 343 salopes, Manifest of the 343 bitches). The manifesto was an admission by its signers to have practiced illegal abortions, and therefore, exposed themselves to judicial actions and prison sentences.[13] It was published in Le Nouvel Observateur on April 5, 1971. That same year, feminist lawyer Gisèle Halimi founded the group, Choisir (“To Chose”), to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343.
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Deneuve moved to Hollywood in 1969. But after a dozen films in six years that paled in comparison to her earlier work, she returned to France. She later won an Academy Award nomination for the 1992 film "Indochine."
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Deneuve hates to talk about her private life or emotions, though she has occasionally described her sister's early death as "the greatest tragedy" or the "most painful event" in her life. In a diary published a few years ago, she said of Francoise: "She haunts me at night, always."
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The year before Françoise died, Catherine made two of her greatest movies. They are so absurdly different in tone and character that it is difficult to believe they were both made in 1966.
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