Marie Laforêt
Marie Laforêt (actually MAITENA Marie Brigitte Douménach) (* 5. October 1939 in Soulac-sur-Mer , Gironde , France ; † 2. November 2019 in Genolier , Vaud , Switzerland ) was a Swiss-French chanson - singer and actress .
Life
Laforêt first appeared in various feature films in the early 1960s. Her first vocal recordings followed a little later. Her first hit was called Les vendanges de l'amour (1963). Her greatest musical successes include Viens, viens (1973) and Il a neigé sur yesterday (1977), a tribute to the Beatles . Her recordings of international hits such as Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones (Marie douceur, Marie colère), The Sound of Silence (La voix du silence) and El cóndor pasa (La flûte magique) by Simon & Garfunkel and Summer Wine by Nancy were also successful Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood (Le vin de l'été).
Laforêt released several albums until the early 1990s. In addition to her French recordings, she also made songs in German, Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. A total of around 35 million copies of her albums were sold, from which the singer, according to the terms of the contract at the time (as an employee of her record company) only benefited to a modest extent. From your singing voice she said: “Je n'ai pas une voix, j'ai un timbre” (“I have no voice, I have a timbre”).
She made her film debut in René Clément's crime classic Nur die Sonne was Witness (1960) alongside Alain Delon . In the following years she shot with many well-known actors, for example in 1963 at the side of Charles Aznavour in Rat Trap America (1963). With the director Claude Chabrol she shot MC contra Dr. Kha . Here she was seen next to Francisco Rabal and Stéphane Audran . In 1984 she starred in Happy Easter alongside Sophie Marceau and Jean-Paul Belmondo . Laforet had already appeared in front of the camera several times in the past with Belmondo. The two shot Galante Love Stories (1961), Hunt for Men (1964), The Greyhound (1979) and The Glorious (1984). She starred in The Diamond Prince in 1967 with George Hamilton and Lilli Palmer . She played her last film role in 2008 in Das Büro Gottes alongside Nathalie Baye and Béatrice Dalle ; after that she appeared again in a short film in 2010. All in all, her work as a film and television actress includes more than 50 productions.
In her later years she mainly played theater. For her interpretation of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's play Master Class , she was nominated twice for the French theater award Molière for best leading actress.
Laforêt lived in French-speaking Switzerland from 1978 and was a Swiss citizen. A job advertisement in which she expressly excluded Orthodox Muslims from the work offered in her household led to a court case in France for racial discrimination in November 2011.
She is the mother of the French director and screenwriter Lisa Azuelos .
Marie Laforêt died on November 2, 2019 at the age of 80 in Switzerland.
Discography (selection)
Albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
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FR | BE W | |||
1964 | Marie Laforêt (1964) |
FR104 (18 weeks) FR |
- |
Chart entry in FR only in 2020
|
1988 | Marie Laforêt (1988) | - |
BE W68 (2 weeks) BE W |
Chart entry in BEW only in 2019
|
2002 | CD story | - |
BE W69 (1 week) BE W |
Chart entry in BEW only in 2019
|
2020 | Integral |
FR103 (1 week) FR |
BE W72 (3 weeks) BE W |
|
Marie Laforêt (2020) | - |
BE W56 (11 weeks) BE W |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Singles
- À demain my darling
- Au printemps
- Ay! Tu me plais
- Blanche nuit de satin - 1982
- Cadeau
- Choux, cailloux, genoux, époux ...
- Emporte-moi
- Entre toi et moi
- Frantz
- Harmony - 1978
- Il a neige sur yesterday
- Sunshine again and again - 1964
- Ivan, Boris et moi - 1967
- Je n'ai rien appris
- Je suis folle de vous
- Je vois (Donna sola) - 1977
- Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes
- Julie Crèvecoeur
- Katy Cruelle
- L'amour comme à 16 ans
- L'orage
- La bague au doigt
- La baie des ans - 1979
- La cavale
- La flûte magique ( El cóndor pasa )
- La plage (La playa)
- La tendresse
- Le lit de Lola - 1967
- Le roi a fait battre le tambour - 1963
- Les noces de campagne - 1964
- Les vendanges de l'amour - 1963
- Luciana
- Don't kid me - 1964
- Maine Montparnasse
- Manchester et Liverpool - 1966
- Marie douceur, Marie colère - 1966 (cover of Paint It Black )
- Moi, je voyage - 1979
- Mon amour, mon ami - 1967
- Noé
- Parlez-moi d'amour - 1980
- Qu'est-ce qui fait pleurer les filles? - 1963
- Qu'y at-il de changé?
- Qué calor la vida - 1968
- Roman d'amour - 1978
- Saint-Tropez blues - 1960
- Sébastien - 1967
- Mais si loin de moi - 1963
- Tom - 1967
- Do it laide
- Tu fais semblant - 1963
- Tumbleweed - 1960
- Viens sur la montagne - 1964
- Viens, viens - 1973
- V'là l'bon vent - 1963
- Warszawa (Goodbye Mama) - 1973
- Y'a pas d'raison - 1983
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: only the sun was witness (plein soleil)
- 1960: The girl with the golden eyes (La fille aux yeux d'or)
- 1964: 100 million in the bucket (Cent briques et des tuiles)
- 1964: The hunt for men (La chasse à l'homme)
- 1965: MC versus Dr. Kha (Marie-Chantal contre le Docteur Kha)
- 1967: The Diamond Prince (Jack of Diamonds)
- 1978: The Greyhound (Flic ou voyou)
- 1983: The Glorious (Les Morfalous)
- 1984: Happy Easter (Joyeuses Pâques)
- 1985: Tangos (Tangos - El exilio de Gardel)
- 1987: Alone against the Mafia ( La Piovra; TV series)
- 1987: Dirty Fate (Sale destin)
- 1990: One cold morning in May (Una fredda mattina di maggio)
- 1993: Conspiracy in the dark (A che punto è la notte?)
- 1996: Tykho Moon
Web links
- Marie Laforêt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Laforêt at Discogs (English)
- Sound documents by and about Marie Laforêt in the catalog of the Swiss National Sound Archives
- Chanson texts by Marie Laforêt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Denis Schwartz: Les chansons de Marie Laforêt. In: denis.schwartz.pagesperso-orange.fr. October 27, 2008, accessed November 4, 2019 (French).
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6FKfla4hk
- ^ Marie Laforêt, la "Fille aux yeux d'or", est morte. In: Le Monde . November 3, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 (French).
- ↑ The Prince of Diamonds (1967) in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on November 4, 2019.
- ^ Procès de Marie Laforêt: la chanteuse, le chihuahua et l'islam. In: Le Parisien . December 1, 2011, accessed November 4, 2019 (French).
- ^ Marie Laforêt, la "Fille aux yeux d'or", est morte. In: Le Monde . November 3, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Chart sources: FR BEW
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Laforêt, Marie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Douménach, Maïténa (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chanson singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Soulac-sur-Mer , Gironde department, France |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 2019 |
Place of death | Genolier |