Cher journal... Diaries that Catherine Deneuve kept on the set of six films have been collected and published in a volume entitled L'Ombre de Moi-Meme (In the Shadow of Myself), the Guardian reports. One reviewer claims Deneuve's accounts of missing a flight, buying stockings, and commenting on fellow commuters "make Marilyn Monroe look like an intellectual."
The cinetrix loves what passes for journalism in the British press. Follow the bouncing ball of attribution with me, won't you?
According to the Telegraph newspaper, an unnamed critic in Le Figaro has derided the star of Repulsion, Belle de Jour and 8 Women for presenting a "syrupy, banal" series of thoughts that reveal the mentality of a "top model from the Elite agency."
Will no one go on record to criticize Deneuve, if only to save her from her named defenders?
"The criticism I've seen smacks of a vendetta," the French cultural broadcaster Laure Adler said. "OK, so it's not Shakespeare. But she never intended it to be a polished work. It is a document of fragmentary, uncensored thoughts of a fragile actress constantly questioning herself and searching for the truth."
I think Johnny Hallyday said it best: Tant pis... c'est la vie.
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