CAtherine Deneuve (81 years) never stops being talked about. Tonight at Taormina Film Festival 2025 will receive the Taormina Achievement Award For his career taken off little more than twenty years old with the film Beautiful day. Beautiful, beautiful, but woe to call it diva.
Today the French actress at 81 years oldprefers to look forward rather than in the past. For the occasion he brings his latest film to Sicily, Spirit World – The Lanterne Festival (in theaters from June 26). A film set in Japan that speaks of death, after all and mourning. Deneve plays a singing teacher who ends up becoming a ghost.
Catherine Deneuve: “I have never felt neither diva nor sex symbol”
With journalists he talks in Italian, every now and then he focuses because he was disturbed by the echo of the rumors that rumble or by someone who suddenly enters the room. “I have never loved the definition of dica – he begins – often this word is associated with the fact of being capricious and selfish. I have never felt a diva, nor a sex symbol».
“I have always tried to reconcile work with the family – he continues – It was natural for me. You have to take time, be stopped and think about real life. I often stopped. I refused roles by saying no for the family».
“I’m not talking about Gérard Depardieu”
The topic becomes delicate when making the name Gérard Depardieurecently sentenced for abuse. Catherine decides not to comment on the news, unlike other French colleagues and Fanny Ardant. «Ardant can say what he wants. I don’t speak of Depardieu and Metoo because the words can be misrepresented. You know, with the internet it is dangerous ». Thus liquidates the slippery topic.
Catherine Deneuve in Taormina. (Courtesy Press Office)
Catherine Deneuve: «I love Italy, except politics. I love Alice Rohrwacher’s cinema “
Attention shifts to Italy and Italian cinema, she who loved Marcello Mastroianni from which he had his daughter Chiara. “I love Italy, I was lucky to learn Italian Because I often turned in your part – he says – with Marcello instead we talked French. I like everything about Italy, except politics», He sinks.
Italian cinema is missing. He loves new alice rohrwacher levers: “I love his films, they are very interesting, poetic and original,” he comments. Then he mentions the veteran Marco Bellocchio and asks Nanni Moretti’s journalists: how are you? (in reference to hospitalization for the heart attack last April).
Spirit World – The Lanterne Festivalthe new film with Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve returns to the cinema on June 26th with the film Spirit World – The Lanterne Festival. Obon is the Japanese festival of the lanterns: a short window over time during which the dead visit the living in the summer. An old Japanese, lover of music, to Claire Emery (Deneuve), a legendary French singer who has just kept a sold out concert in Tokyo and who now, in a bar, has drank too Sakè, tells it. Here begins the journey between this and other worlds, between the living and the dead, between the seasons and the emotionsbetween the city and the sea, among the songs that Claire sang and the films that a young director in creative crisis has made.
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