Four César, seven nominations ... With the triumph in 2000 - a symbol - of Vénus Beauté (institute) , Tonie Marshall will not only become the first filmmaker to receive the César for best director, but also the first woman to impose in France a scenario with subtle feminism.
She died Thursday, March 12 at the age of 68 " as a result of a long illness ", as her agent clarified, " by bequeathing us an intimate, caustic feminism, more relevant than ever In the words of Anne Hidago who pays tribute to her on Twitter.
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The daughter of the legendary actress Micheline Presle ( Le diable au corps , Boule de suif ...) will have waited until the 1990s to find, in the staging and scriptwriting, her original cinematic creativity.
Before the revelation of Venus beauty (institute) , because damn it can not lie, she exercised her talents in the theater, where she will have the great pleasure of replying to her mother, and especially in very popular comic films and today cult ones like Les Sous-doués by Claude Zidi in 1980.
After the rain of César won in 2000 by Vénus Beauté (institute) , the vein of Tonie Marshall will not dry up. She will play Catherine Deneuve in Au plus près du Paradis , a sort of tribute to Her and Him by Leo McCarey. In this film, the heroine embodied a passionate and loving cinephile. Definitely a symbol, for the inspired Tonie Marshall.
From Vénus Beauté (institute) to France boutique , passing by Au closest to paradise , Le Figaro presents a selection of his best films.
● Vénus Beauté (Institute) , in 1999, by Tonie Marshall, with Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Mathilde Seignier, Audrey Tautou, Micheline Presle ...
● As close as possible to Tonie Marshall's paradise , in 2002, with Catherine Deneuve, William Hurt, Bernard le Coq ...
● France Boutique by Tonie Marshall, in 2003, with Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, François Cluzet ....