Arts & Culture

Danielle Darrieux

A reign of sixty years, and the most peaceful reign in the world & who can do better? Incapable of making a spectacle of anything, she is simplicity itself, she is life. She is Danielle Darrieux. On a film set, the most surprising actress you are ever likely to find can be seen laughing right up until the film clapperboard snaps shut, with a ravishing laugh which has charmed the whole world. In the split-second which follows, she can be as astonishing as she can be inconsolable. This is the portrait of a woman born just after the First World War and who will surely be seen treading the boards across France in 2000. A woman who has loved men madly, and whom men have loved madly. A woman who has made a fortune and spent even moreÂ… on others. A woman who could be a billionaire but who has nothing. And who, instead of crying, can laugh about it.