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Isabelle in Sao Paulo, Brazil 2003.02.26
If you think Isabelle is struck by the recent incidents, you're wrong. She already arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Monday, and is playing 4.48 Psychose" at Theater Sesc Anchieta from Feb. 24 to 27. The stage in Brazil (organized by Cine Sesc) is part of worldwide tour for 4.48 Psychosis, which started in Paris at Bouffes du Nord last October, and has toured around Europe since November. Along with the play in Sao Paulo, a retrospect to Isabelle's films is also held: "La Pianiste", "Story of Women", "Madame Bovary" and "La Fausse Suivante".
"The text of Kane is different from everything", Isabelle explained in the arrival press conference, giving a rare smile between sipping the water. "It is a different voice. People don't find the same typical references to theater as characters, scenes, dialogues. It is a new language."
Marked for frost of her characters, Isabelle said in the past interviews, that the truth of beauty is mystery, her still is to hide things. "I don't have the monopoly of these characters. But I find that the directors always invite me because they know that I will give account of the message. But after all, who does not have something to hide." Isabelle said, in her fourth visit to Brazil.
"As I am very sluggish, it is much more easy to interpret somebody who hides something than somebody who shows excessively", affirmed she in a irony tone.
Asked her character in the new upcoming film "Le Temps du Loup", by Michael Haneke, she said, "She is a person who doesn't have many psychological controls, she deals more with the question
of the survival to the cold, the fear, the hunger and the fatigue." (read full press conference)
The special interviews with Claude Régy and Isabelle will be conducted on Feb. 26 and 27, an hour before the play, to public. (read full coverage @http://www.sescsp.org.br in Portuguese or a translation in Eligsh)
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Isabelle, Award Free"
about Césars 2003
What's Wrong with Les Césars? 2003.02.22
I don't know how to express my dismaying after watching the César Ceremony. Les Français sont fous! They gave all French major film awards to a rather-American-than-French film — Le Pianiste, and left their last year's worldwide success - 8 Femmes, Rien! Rien! Rien! A 12-to-0 scandale. If French Academy don't honor their own films, who one else will do? If this is what Toscan du Plantier, the tireless ambassador for French films would have expected!
Although the results made me so much anguished, Isabelle's appearance made me feel profoundly sorry for her. She seemed immersed in a mode of grief so long. Bravely stood out there, reading a tribute to Toscan du Plantier in front of his huge photo, to millions of potential audience through Canal+, even if she rarely had make-up on and had herself dressed up glamorously, she remained in her grace and elegance. The sad mood at beginning was cheered up immediately after Gerard Depardieu, Antonie Pialat and Geraldine Pailhlas stepped onto the stage and announced the Ceremony open. But Isabelle never seemed to be able to draw in the rest of the celebrations. She sited, pale and fitigue and sad, by the side of Melita - the wife of Toscan du Plantier, in a seat that Daniel would have been seated. From time to time, I wished that something could have made her happier... mais...jamais...rien! Even a swift smile on her face tells me the tremendous sorrow inside.
Just as what I guessed earlier, Isabelle will step on the stage at the 28th Ceremony of César, on Feburary 22 evening, starting from 21h (in French time).
The ceremony will be marked by the homages to two great losses in French cinema in one-month interval: Daniel Toscan du Plantier, President of Academy of Arts and Techniques of Cinema, which has founded and handed out César Awards annually since 1976, and Maurice Pialat, three times nominated in César's Best Film and Best Director, to whom Toscan du Plantier was the most supportive producer.
Isabelle will read a homage in opening to Toscan du Plantier, after the projection of an film-assembly. As actress in LouLou by Maurice Pialat, she will pass the torch to the director's most faithful actor Gerard Depardieu. He will read a homage to Pialat by the side of Antoine Pialat, the director's son who was filmed in his last film Le GARÇU in 1995. Both will announce the evening open with Geraldine Pailhlas, actress in Le GARÇU, who will chair the rest of the ceremony.
The day when hundreds of thouSaods of French marched to register opposition to war in Iraq, the funeral of Toscan du Plantier was held at Madeleine Church in Paris, the same Saturday morning. A cluster of French stars attended for the last homage to the well-known film producer and tireless ambassador for French films.
"This light comes from the glance", Isabelle said at the beginning of her mourning, that she liked a lot of being disappeared. She cited an extract from Victor Hugo's "Song of the Twilight", and the poems from modern poet Francis Ponge on the "function of the artist, to repair the world, like a watch maker".
Voilà, the dark day should end now. Let's look forward to the coming Saturday, on February 22, the annual La Nuit des Césars will be held at the Theater of Châtelet in Paris. Besides that Isabelle and Huit Femmes are favorite nominees this year, Isabelle will also possibly be a presenter or hostess in the following two events: A homage to Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who used to be the president of French Academy of Arts and Techniques of Cinema since 1992; An Honor César attributed to Bernadette Lafont, who is Claude Chabrol's first heroine since 1959's "Le Beau Serge" while Isabelle is his current one since 1978's "Violette Noziere".
Last time Isabelle appeared on the stage of César Award Ceremony is 1999, the year she was the hostess as well as a nominee for her performance in "L'Ecole de la Chair" by Benoît Jacquot.
First, in very early morning, Oscar Nominations are announced, neither Isabelle nor 8 Femmes is nominated. It's a sign of total ignorance to films from France, the last film nation in the world remains competitive to Hollywood.
The second news is truly a shock: Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the president of UniFrance since 1988, died of heart attack suddenly at Berlin Film Festival! As you may know, he was the man romantically linked to the very young Isabelle 20 more years before. He is also the man - highly claimed "artist of the seventh art", who produced films with those great directors: Fellini, Tarkovski, Pialat, Bergman, Rohmer, Truffaut or Kurosawa.
It is the exact date - only a month later- of the death of Maurice Pialat, whom Toscan du Plantier claimed as a best friend. His recent confession to Charles Tesson, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinima is still fresh, "Pialat killed the artist in Van Gogh, and, in a certain way, I was the accomplice of this Maurice Pialat. I understood well that my employment in film, it is the brother Théo. One day, Maurice said a little Cachet to me too. After the death of Vincent, Théo became inSaoe and died six months afterwards. I will well see in six months when I will be." The coincidence is terribly awful, if you think of it further that Isabelle is currently playing the monologue of another dead Goddess - Sarah Kane, who committed suicide 5 days after she completed 4.48 Psychosis.
Without Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who used to be the opening speaker, this year's La Nuit des Césars (on Feb. 22, 2003) will be very very SAD, even though 8 femmes will become the biggest winner for sure.
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