- The icon of French cinema Brigitte Bardot, of global fame, died this Sunday, December 28.
- As the hours passed, tributes from actors and directors followed one another to salute an actress who “marked our time”.
- A “total myth”, which embodied “France”, according to several great voices of the 7th Art.
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Brigitte Bardot died at the age of 91
His disappearance triggered an avalanche of political reactions (new window)but his environment, that of the 7th Art, did not fail to salute his memory either. Tributes to Brigitte Bardot, who died on Sunday at the age of 91 (new window)are multiplying in the world of cinema, from Francis Huster to Thierry Frémaux via Claude Lelouch and Line Renaud.
Often compared to Marilyn Monroe, like her blonde, with explosive beauty and a tumultuous private life, BB was, like the American actress, “the most beautiful diamond in the world”
Francis Huster told AFP. “I am sure that their two stars form the most beautiful duo in the sky”
assured the actor, who had filmed with the star (new window) in 1973.
“True revolution”, “monument of French culture”…
“She was more than an actress, she was France”
greeted Claude Lelouch, director ofA man and a woman
on BFMTV, before adding: “I remember very well General De Gaulle, whom I met one day, he told me:
France is me and Brigitte Bardot (new window)“
. “This woman was a real revolution, quite simply because in a world of cheaters, she did not cheat. She always said what she thought. And this spontaneity touched the whole world”
he continued.
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She was “the most beautiful in the world”
but above all “an absolutely wonderful actress”
underlined on the same channel the actor Pierre Arditi, refusing to reduce it to a “physics icon”
. “She marked our time because she was also capable of embodying and acting”
insisted the 81-year-old actor.
In a long text published on her social networks, the singer and actress Line Renaud also expressed her “chagrin”
. “We have known each other forever, since our distant youth”
she wrote, remembering a young girl “incandescent, already fascinating”
. “We have rarely met over the years, (…) but we have always seen each other as sisters in combat. She for the
animal rights
(new window)me against AIDS”
added the vice-president of Sidaction.
“I am far from sharing all (the) beliefs”
of the star, close to the extreme right (new window), “but I will always admire the strength with which she defended animals”
concluded the 97-year-old actress, greeting “a monument of French culture, a symbol of freedom, an eternal icon on the highest step of our national pantheon”
.
“A myth, a charisma, a voice, an era, an attitude, a charm, an inspiration and a unique talent”
commented actress Elsa Zylberstein on Instagram, while Isabelle Adjani shared photos of an evening with Brigitte Bardot, in the summer of 2004 in Saint-Tropez, confiding her “infinite sadness”
. For his part, Jean Dujardin published a black and white photo of the actress, accompanied by a simple “#brigittebardot”
.
“The incarnation of the French woman for the whole world”, salutes the CNC
Institutions in the sector have also reacted. Gaëtan Bruel, president of the National Cinema Center (CNC), estimated on the social network And God… created woman
by Roger Vadim (1956) “a myth on screen (…) but also the incarnation of the French woman for the whole world”
. Brigitte Bardot is “un mythe total”
also assured Thierry Frémaux, director of the Lumière Institute in Lyon and general delegate of the Cannes festival, on franceinfo. She “gave the codes of what
what it was like to be a star
(new window)“
he added, recalling the riot caused by his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967.
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“No one described Bardot better than the writer François Nourissier”
for his part reacted the former president of the Cannes festival Gilles Jacob to AFP, quoting the author: “an unstable balance between caprice and damnation”
. Another former president of the festival, Pierre Lescure, greeted a “single destiny”
, “her crazy and new beauty, absolute and brazen”
, “his fantasy, his multiple roles”
.
Guest on LCI, the former Minister of Culture Jack Lang described a “Modern Eve from all eternity”
, “both ingenuous and mysterious, she was a star with a casual spirit”
. While recognizing that we are not “more in harmony with the performer, the actress, the woman as I knew her much younger”
a “ultimate icon”
embodying “freedom, absolute beauty”
. More “everywhere”
across the world, “the name of Brigitte Bardot shines, sparkles, bursts with all its lights”
he said.
