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Diamond Deneuve
December 1998
The french media loves her. Now. Place Vendôme - 800 000 tickets sold in France - is just behind Le Diner de Cons, Les Visiteurs 2, Taxi, Dreamlife of Angels and Paparazzi at the Box office this year.
After her Lion for Best Actress in Venice, she's the favorite of the next Cesars (her 3rd?), along Elodie Bouchez, Natasha Reigner, Virginie Ledoyen, Nathalie Baye and Sandrine Kiberlain. Usually the old ladys (Jeanne Moreau) and big stars awarded in Venice (Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche) are certain to take away the statue.
Studio magazine put Deneuve on its front cover in october ("Today's Deneuve"). The same magazine loves so much Place Vendôme that the movie was elected among the 10 best of the year.
Premiere made an other kind of hommage: the staff has chosen different reviews of the frenchs newspapers, all about the star. And all are positive.
Aden (intellectual and underground): "Obviously, to see Deneuve, whom one adores and that one admires, trailing herself, fallen angel, losing the mond, that can only make us effect."
Le Monde (global and intellectual): "She is like a statue, the moment after she's like a wound. She is very beautiful, irritating, pitiful, royal. She is incredible."
Libération (intellectual and provocative): "At the point of imperial maturity where she arrived, Deneuve would be able to turn sexy a pair of varixes nylons."
Le Figaro (conservative): "Essence remains the presence of Deneuve who does not say a lot of things but which one perceives the interior combat through calms, smiles, the tensions which
solidify one second her face."
Le Point (newsmagazine): "The force of Deneuve is to keep her greatness even in the forfeiture."
Le Nouvel Observateur (newsmagazine): "Deneuve is a myth in perpetual motion myth which cheating neither with her age, nor with her desires."
And at last Premiere (movie magazine with more ads than movies): "Deneuve goes on to destroy her image myth with a conviction and a brilliance which forces admiration. "
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