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Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.

Top Cast

  • Bernadette Lafont

    Bernadette Lafont

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jean-Pierre Kalfon

    Jean-Pierre Kalfon

    Self

  • Bulle Ogier

    Bulle Ogier

    Self

  • Michel Demonteix

    Michel Demonteix

    Self

  • Anna Medveczky

    Anna Medveczky

    Self

  • Solène Madveczky-Lafont

    Solène Madveczky-Lafont

    Self

  • Juliette Madveczky-Lafont

    Juliette Madveczky-Lafont

    Self

  • Brigitte Bardot

    Brigitte Bardot

  • Ingrid Bergman

    Ingrid Bergman

Overview

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.

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