Reuters - French actress Marie-France Pisier, muse of auteur cinema, died at the age of 66 in the night from Saturday to Sunday
Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (Var), where she lived, it was learned from the gendarmerie.
Actress "intellectual" and committed, Marie-France Pisier was crowned twice the Cesar for Best Actress for "Cousin Cousine" (1976) Jean-Charles Tacchella and "Barocco" (1977), a work that Andre Techine made him one of its
favorite actress.
Marie-France Pisier, born May 10, 1944 in the former French Indochina, the cinema began in 1961 by Francois Truffaut, who enlisted for the sketch "Antoine and Colette" face
Jean-Pierre Léaud (Antoine Doinel) in the film "Love at Twenty."
Seventeen later, she embodied Colette in "Love on the Run," the last chapter of the adventures of Antoine Doinel she co-wrote with Truffaut.
Silhouette sophisticated distance any bourgeois tone of voice unparalleled, Marie-France Pisier was at the heart of the universe of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Luis Bunuel and Jacques Rivette.
Film copyright in popular cinema
But it is also found in popular hits, like "Ace of Aces" with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1982) or "The Price of danger" (1983) where she played a producer of reality TV before hour.
Yves Boisset, the director of "Price of risk", on Sunday welcomed an actress "a great class and (of) a great intelligence."
More rare in cinema in the 90s, she toured with young filmmakers in recent years. She made her last screen appearance in "The rest of the ham?" (2010), a comedy by Anne Depetrini.Theater actress, she was also a writer, screenwriter and director.
It was published in 1984 "Governor's Ball," a novel inspired by her childhood, she adapted for film in 1990 with actress Kristin Scott-Thomas in the lead role.
"C" was a woman of solar energy absolutely, who was curious about everything, who never rests on its laurels as an actress, "said Kristin Scott-Thomas on ITélé.
