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Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

May 18, 2016 · 1h 5m
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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.

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CAST

Bernadette Lafont
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Self
Bulle Ogier
Self
Michel Demonteix
Self
Anna Medveczky
Self
Solène Madveczky-Lafont
Self
Juliette Madveczky-Lafont
Self
Brigitte Bardot
Directed by Esther Hoffenberg

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Released
Original language
FR
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Production
Lapsus, INA
Country
FR
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