Ten essential films by Catherine Deneuve to watch streaming and celebrate the 80th birthday of the muse of French cinema

Catherine Deneuve rodaba Love is a strange game, by Alain Cavalier, when it was photographed on Pampelonne beach, near Saint-Tropez. It was 1968, she was only 25 years old and her career was taking off. That image of the young French actress was the one that the Cannes Festival used this year to illustrate the 76th edition that was held last May. She did it to pay tribute to the great lady of French cinema who turns 80 this Sunday.

Daughter of actors (Maurice Dorléac Ver and Renée Simonot), Catherine Deneuve made her film debut at the age of 14 in The College Girls (1957). He achieved his first success a little later, with The umbrellas of Cherbourgdirected by Jacques Demy, a film that won the Palme d’Or. He repeated it with him in The ladies of Rochefort, where he worked with his sister, also an actress. Françoise Dorlèac died in a car accident in 1967.

In 1965 he filmed another of the fundamental titles of his career, Repulsion, under the orders of Roman Polanski. Perhaps because of the role she played in this film, a repressed young woman who felt attraction and rejection towards men, that idea of ​​a cold and distant woman began to be born. A fame that increased even more when she filmed with Luis Buñuel another of her most famous films: Beautiful by day, in which she played a sexually repressed married woman, but who was dedicated to prostitution. She with him she would work again in Tristanaplaying the lame niece that fascinated Fernando Rey.

Another of his most remembered films, The Mississippi Sirenhe filmed it under the orders of another of the greats of French cinema, François Truffaut, with whom he also filmed The last subway and with whom she had a romantic relationship for two years. From her filmography she herself highlights, among many others, dance in the dark (Palma de Oro), by Lars von Trier.

Deneuve was nominated for an Oscar only once, in 1992 for Indochina, for which he won one of his two Césars. The other was for The last subway. In total she has been nominated 12 times for French film awards. In 2002 she won the European Film Award for best actress for 8 women.

Deneuve’s filmography is very extensive, but his 80th birthday is a good time to remember some of the most important titles. This Sunday, the TCM channel is doing a marathon about the actress. Furthermore, the platforms streaming They have some of their great works in their catalog.

Special programming by Catherine Deneuve on the TCM channel

• 11:55 Donkey skin
• 13:25 Indochina
• 16:00 The last metro
• 18:10 Repulsion
• 19:55 The ladies of Rochefort
• 22:00 The umbrellas of Cherbourg
• 23:30 The truth

Ten essential Catherine Deneuve films to watch streaming

• The umbrellas of Cherbourg: Filmin, Movistar Plus+ and Tivify
• The Rochefort ladies: Filmin, Movistar Plus+
• Repulsion: Filmin, Movistar Plus+ and Tivify
• Beautiful by day: FlixOlé, Filmin, Movistar Plus+
• The Mississippi Siren: of the movie
• Tristana: FlixOlé
• The last meter: Filmin, Movistar Plus+
• Indochina: Filmin, Movistar Plus+
• Dance in the dark: of the movie
• 8 women: of the movie