Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

Name: Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman
Director: Esther Hoffenberg
Released: 2016

Esther Hoffenberg 2016

“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.”

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Running Time:

66 min.

Spoken Languages:

French

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Esther Hoffenberg

Producers:

Esther Hoffenberg Laurent Roth, Hugues Landry, Paul Champart

Cinematographers:

Gertrude Baillot

Editors:

Muriel Breton

Production Companies:

Lapsus

Arts and Culture

Biography

Cinema

French Cinema and Cult..

Women

Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

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Festival de Cannes
Jerusalem Film Festival

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