Francine Racette

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Francine Racette (born September 23, 1947 in Québec ) is a Canadian actress .

Life

Training and first film roles

Together with the later actresses Sophie Clément and Michèle Magny , Francine Racette took acting lessons from the young Marcel Sabourin . Together with Magny, she was accepted at the École nationale de théâtre (ÉNT) in Montreal , which she graduated in 1966. During this time, Magny and Racette received grants for stays in Paris , where they would later share an apartment. In 1969 Racette made her film debut with a supporting role in the less successful Canadian film Le Grand Rock , which traces the path of a village boy into crime. After her first experience in front of the camera, Racette left her home country and went to France , where she worked with Michel Mitrani on the television film Reportages sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques . Here she worked alongside Robert Etcheverry and Maurice Garrel, among others . Just a year later, the Franco-Canadian received her first leading role in Frédéric Rossif's drama As Far as Love Reaches . In the documentary filmmaker's first feature film , Racette plays the young Parisian Isabelle, who radically changes her life after her boyfriend's suicide. This was followed by a supporting role in Dario Argento's Italian crime film Four Flies on Gray Velvet , before she impersonated the leading female role in Simon Edelstein's drama Les Vilaines Manières . Here she can be seen as the heartless partner of a radio reporter (played by Jean-Luc Bideau ) who produces programs about single women.

In 1973 Francine Racette returned to Canada for Claude Fournier's Western Ferner Donner , with which she made her debut in English-language film. The starring role is played by fellow actor and future husband Donald Sutherland , whom she met and fell in love with while filming. At the time, Sutherland spoke no French and racette only spoke fragmentary English. In the same year their son Roeg was born, whom the couple named after the British film director Nicolas Roeg ( When the gondolas bear mourning ). Francine Racette did not return to the screen until two years later to star in Jeanne Moreau's directorial debut. In the drama In the Spotlight (1976), which portrays the fate of four actresses, the Franco-Canadian plays the part of Julienne, a young and ambitious actress who has to recognize that the power of coquetry has its limits. The film, from filmdienst spurned as distanzlos, superficial and talkative, put the highlight in Racettes career and it was in 1977 for the French film award César as best supporting actress nomination.

Withdrawal from the film business

After In the Spotlight , Francine Racette appeared in supporting roles in Joseph Losey's award-winning drama Monsieur Klein and Michel Vianey's tragic comedy Un type comme moi ne devrait jamais mourir (both 1976). A year later, the female lead followed in Stuart Cooper's thriller His Last Murder in which she acted a second time on the side of Donald Sutherland. In the pessimistic parable about emotional poverty and isolation, she played the wife of a professional killer who instigated her husband to murder her lover. His final murder was to be Francine Racette's last appearance in a movie for the time being, and she subordinated her career to that of her husband Donald Sutherland for the next several years. In 1978 and 1982 their sons Rossif and Angus Redford were born, who the couple named after the filmmakers Frédéric Rossif and Robert Redford . Both sons, like their parents, should also switch to acting.

In 1987, Francine Racette returned to the big screen with Louis Male's semi-autobiographical work Goodbye, Children . In the multi-award-winning and Oscar- nominated youth film , she played the loving and quick-talking mother of a French boarding school student who made friends with a Jewish classmate during the Second World War . Since Goodbye, Children, Francine Racette has not appeared in any film. In 1999 she took part in panel discussions on film organized as part of the Toronto International Film Festival alongside Norman Jewison , Peter Ustinov , Eli Wallach and Susannah York . A year later she was involved as a co-producer in the theater production of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Enigmatic Variations in which her husband played the leading role. The piece, which was performed in Los Angeles , Toronto and London , had been translated by Francine Racettes and Donald Sutherland's son Roeg. The couple owns homes in Los Angeles and Paris and a farm in Québec.

Filmography

  • 1969: Le Grand Rock
  • 1970: Reportages sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques (TV)
  • 1971: As far as love goes (Aussi loin que l'amour)
  • 1971: Four flies on gray velvet (Quattro mosche di velluto grigio)
  • 1973: Les Vilaines Manières
  • 1974: Alien Thunder
  • 1976: In the spotlight (Lumière)
  • 1976: Monsieur Klein (M. Klein)
  • 1976: Un type comme moi ne devrait jamais mourir
  • 1977: His Last Murder (The Disappearance)
  • 1987: Goodbye, children (Au revoir les enfants)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Interview ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Michèle Magny at ent-nts.ca (French; accessed June 14, 2011). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ent-nts.ca
  2. ↑ cf. Toto, Christian: Actor's always right for the job . In: The Washington Times, June 4, 2003, Life-Arts etc., p. B05
  3. ↑ cf. Film review by rrh in film-dienst 17/1977
  4. ↑ cf. Lexicon of international film
  5. ↑ cf. More Celebrities, And Less Fun . In: The Toronto Star, September 9, 1999, Entertainment
  6. ↑ cf. Wolf, Matt: Enigmatic Variations . In: Variety, June 12-18, 2000, Legit Reviews, p. 25
  7. ↑ cf. Dingwall, John: Star Donald On His Scots Roots: Sutherland Highlander . In: Daily Record, March 17, 2001, Features, pp. 33-35
personal data
SURNAME Racette, Francine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec , Canada