Marie-France Pisier

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Pisier at the 45th Cannes Film Festival (1992)

Marie-France Pisier (born May 10, 1944 in Đà L , t , Vietnam ; † April 24, 2011 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer ) was a French actress , director and writer . From the beginning of the 1960s she appeared in more than 80 film and television productions, mostly dramas, and was twice awarded the French César film prize.

Life

Discovery by François Truffaut for the film

Marie-France Pisier was born in Vietnam as the daughter of the then French colonial governor who was a supporter of the Vichy regime . Her younger brother Gilles Pisier (* 1950) became an important mathematician. Her older sister Évelyne (* 1941), worked as a lawyer and women activist, worked for the French Ministry of Culture and married the French politician Bernard Kouchner . Pisier's father was later transferred from Hanoi to Nouméa ( New Caledonia ) before the family returned to Nice . From a young age she was enthusiastic about the theater. She joined a theater group at the age of ten and took part in a performance for the first time two years later. She was considered a very good student and lived with her mother in Nice.

In 1962, François Truffaut discovered Pisier for the film. The director had been looking for a young actress for the short film Antoine and Colette , who was to go into the episode film Love at the age of twenty , and therefore placed an ad in the Cinémonde : “François Truffaut is looking for a fiancée for Jean-Pierre Léaud and for L'Amour à vingt ans “. The part of Colette should be occupied by a really young woman, “no Lolita, no 'youngster', no mature woman. [...] It should be simple and cheerful and have a good general education. Not too 'sexy' ”, says Truffaut. The journalist Mario Brun from Nice-Matin then sent him a photo of the young Marie-France Pisier, whom he had noticed in an amateur theater. Truffaut cast her shortly before shooting began and gave her the female title role in the short film.

The short film in which she played the prudish object of desire of Truffaut's alter ego Antoine Doinel (Léaud) made Pisier known. At that time she was studying political economy with the aim of becoming a legal advisor. As so often during filming, Truffaut fell in love with his leading actress, whom he told his confidante Helen G. Scott as "modern, very feminist, left-wing - towards Sartre-Beauvoir" and as "very open, direct, very strong and at the same time very childlike “Characterized.

Pisier was to repeat the part of Colette in 1968 with a one-minute short appearance in Robbery Kisses . In 1979 she returned in love on the run , in which she meets Antoine on the train and later his ex-wife Christine ( Claude Jade ) and talks to her about Antoine.

César win and work as a filmmaker

After working with Truffaut, Pisier played in rather insignificant genre films. At the same time she studied at the University of Paris-Nanterre and sympathized with Daniel Cohn-Bendit's "Movement of March 22nd" ( French Mouvement du 22-Mars ) during the Paris May riots in 1968 . She also had a private relationship with the later politician.

Her breakthrough as a film actress in France followed in 1975 with Pisier's role in Jean-Charles Tacchella's internationally successful romantic comedy Cousin, Cousin . The part of the hysterical-depressive wife of Victor Lanoux earned her the César for the best female supporting role . The following year, Pisier won the award again in the role of prostitute Nelly in André Téchiné's Barocco , and roles in English-language cinema followed, with which the Frenchwoman was unable to build on her previous success. After an appearance in Eduardo de Gregorios Sérail (1976), she vied with Susan Sarandon in Charles Jarrott's historical drama Beyond Midnight for the favor of an air officer (played by John Beck ).

Pisier was considered muse of auteur cinema by Alain Robbe-Grillet , Jacques Rivette and Téchiné, who after skin Paulina from (1971), Barocco , memories of France (1974) and in the sisters Brontë (1979) next to Isabelle Adjani and Isabelle Huppert occupied . Luis Buñuel gave her a noble extras role in his film Das Gespenst der Freiheit , in which she sits on toilet bowls at the table with others. Pisier also made commercial films such as Gérard Ourys Das As der Ase (1982) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and worked as a stage actress.

In Germany, Pisier was seen as Clawdia Chauchat in the Thomas Mann film adaptation of The Magic Mountain in 1981 , directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer . In the same year she slipped into the role of the famous fashion designer of the same name for George Kaczender's Unique Chanel . Ten years later she was part of the drama ensemble of Andrzej Żuławski's film Blue Note , alongside Sophie Marceau , in which she appeared as George Sand , the lover of Frédéric Chopin (played by the well-known Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak ).

In 1997, Pisier worked with Manuel Poirier on Marion , the story of a ten-year-old girl from the French provinces who befriends a wealthy Parisian. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the actress has increasingly turned to work on television and has embodied recurring roles in the series Venus and Apoll (2005), Milk and Honey (2009) and Le Chasseur (2010). In the 2000s, however, Pisier also appeared in films by young French directors such as Christophe Honorés Dans Paris and Maïwenn Le Besco's Forgive Me (both 2006).

Pisier also worked as a screenwriter and director. After working on the scripts for Rivette's Celine and Julie Drive Boot (1974) and Truffauts Liebe auf der Flucht (1979), she made her directorial debut in 1990 with Le Bal du gouverneur . The film with Kristin Scott Thomas and Didier Flamand in the leading roles was based on a novel in which she dealt with her childhood in New Caledonia. In 2002 Pisier directed the feature film Comme un avion with Bérénice Bejo , to which she was inspired by the death of her parents.

Private life and death

Marie-France Pisier was married to lawyer Georges Kiejman for the first time, and to Thierry Funck-Brentano, who held a managerial position at Groupe Lagardère , for the second time . From this connection a son and a daughter were born.

On the night of April 23rd to 24th, 2011, the body of the 66-year-old Pisier was found by her husband in the swimming pool of the shared property in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (southern France). As a guest, she was still the honorary gala of Jean-Paul Belmondo at the beginning of May the 64th Film Festival in Cannes was expected. She had worked with Belmondo on The Body of My Enemy in 1976 and in The Ace of Aces in 1982 . The French Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand , posthumously praised the artist as an “intellectual engaged in the struggles of her time” . According to filmmaker Yves Boisset, Pisier always kept his distance and had a mysterious charisma. The actor and director Robert Hossein attributed an abundance of “presence, talent, sensitivity and extraordinary clarity” to his colleague since her youth.

literature

Marie-Elisabeth Rouchy published the biography La véritable Marie-France Pisier in 2014 .

In 2019 Ludovic Mabreuil's "La Cinematique des muses" will be published, in which the author portrays twenty film muses on 215 pages, including Geneviève Bujold , Mimsy Farmer , Claude Jade , Elsa Martinelli , Ottavia Piccolo , Marie-France Pisier, Edith Scob , Maria Schneider , Joanna Shimkus and Catherine Spaak . [1]

Filmography

Actress (selection)

  • 1962: Love at Twenty (Episode: Antoine and Colette)
  • 1962: The Devil and the Ten Commandments (Le Diable et les Dix Commandements)
  • 1963: The girl with the pious gaze (Les Saintes nitouches)
  • 1963: Cursed and Forgotten (La Mort d'un tueur)
  • 1964: The cruel eye (Les yeux cernés)
  • 1965: The man whose name was Peter Kürten (Le Vampire de Düsseldorf)
  • 1966: Trans-Europ-Express
  • 1967: You don't steal treasure (Non sta bene rubare il tesoro)
  • 1970: We will no longer go into the forest (Nous n'irons plus au bois)
  • 1971: Paulina runs away (Pauline s'en va)
  • 1974: Céline and Julie go boating (Céline et Julie vont en bâteau)
  • 1974: Memories from France (Souvenirs d'en France)
  • 1975: cousin, cousin
  • 1975: Barocco
  • 1976: The Body of My Enemy (Le Corps de mon ennemie)
  • 1977: The Other Side of Midnight ; with Susan Sarandon
  • 1979: The Brontë sisters (Les Sœurs Brontë)
  • 1979: Victor Charlie calls Lima Sierra ( The French Atlantic Affair ; TV miniseries)
  • 1979: Love on the run (L'Amour en fuite)
  • 1979: Who else goes to university? (French Postcards)
  • 1980: Those who have no scruples (Scruples)
  • 1980: The banker's wife (La Banquière)
  • 1981: The Hot Touch
  • 1981: Unique Chanel (Chanel Solitaire)
  • 1981: The Magic Mountain
  • 1982: Boulevard des assassins (Boulevard des assassins)
  • 1982: Das As der Ase (L'As des as)
  • 1983: Headhunt - Prize of Fear (Le Prix du danger)
  • 1983: The Silent Ocean (TV movie)
  • 1983: My Friend, the Womanizer (L'Ami de Vincent)
  • 1991: Blue Note (La Note bleue)
  • 1996: Marion
  • 1998: A woman made to measure ( Une femme sur mesure ; TV film)
  • 1999: Time found again (Le Temps retrouvé)
  • 2005: Venus and Apollon ( Vénus & Apollon ; TV series)
  • 2005: A perfect friend (Un ami parfait)
  • 2006: Dans Paris
  • 2006: Forgive me (Pardonnez-moi)
  • 2009: Milk and Honey ( Revivre ; TV miniseries)
  • 2010: Le Chasseur (TV series)
  • 2011: Il reste du jambon?

script

Director

  • 1990: Le Bal du gouverneur
  • 2002: Comme un avion

Works

  • 1984: Le Bal du gouverneur (novel)
  • 1986: Je n'ai aimé que vous
  • 1992: La Belle Imposture (novel)
  • 1997: Le Deuil du printemps (novel)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Marie-France Pisier  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Actrice: Marie-France Pisier. In: Le Monde, April 26, 2011, p. 20 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  2. ↑ a b Armelle Heliot: La disparition de Marie-France Pisier ( Memento of the original of April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; lefigaro.fr, April 24, 2011 (accessed April 25, 2011). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lefigaro.fr
  3. ^ Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana: François Truffaut: Biography . Cologne: vgs, 1999; ISBN 3-8025-2543-4 ; P. 304.
  4. ^ Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana: François Truffaut: Biography . Cologne: vgs, 1999; ISBN 3-8025-2543-4 ; Pp. 304-308.
  5. ↑ a b c L'actrice Marie-France Pisier est morte , Le Monde.fr of April 24, 2011. Accessed April 25, 2011.
  6. ↑ cf. Biography at allocine.fr (French; accessed April 25, 2011).
  7. ↑ cf. Mort Marie France Pisier: Les hommages se multiplient at staragora.com, April 24, 2011 (accessed April 25, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Pisier, Marie-France
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Da Lat , Vietnam
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2011
Place of death Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France