Pascale Ogier

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Pascale Ogier with her award for full moon nights at the Venice International Film Festival in 1984

Pascale Ogier (born October 26, 1958 in Paris , † October 25, 1984 ) was a French actress .

Life

Acting debut

Pascale Ogier was born in Paris in 1958 as the daughter of the famous French actress Bulle Ogier . She began studying French literature and film, but dropped out to switch to acting against her mother's wishes. In 1978 Ogier made her acting debut with a supporting role in Jean-Claude Brisseau's TV film Life as It Is . In the same year she was discovered by the renowned auteur filmmaker Éric Rohmer , who gave Ogier a supporting role in his film Perceval le Gallois . In the award-winning drama that is Wolfram von Eschenbach's verse novel Parzival took for submission were Fabrice Luchini and André Dussollier her film partner. Rohmer also used Pascale Ogier in his next project, the television adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's five-act act Käthchen von Heilbronn (1980). Here the Frenchwoman was seen in the title role of an illegitimate daughter of the emperor, whose life is endangered by intrigue. This was followed by a small appearance in Mauro Bolognini's romantic drama Lady of the Camellias , in which Isabelle Huppert and Bruno Ganz played the leading roles.

Pascale Ogier became better known in 1981 when she acted at the side of her mother in Jacques Rivette's film An der Nordbrücke . In the story about two women who meet three times during one day in Paris, she is the impetuous and imaginative Baptiste who understands life as the rule of horror. The fantasy film , for which Ogier co- wrote the script with her mother, director Rivette and screenwriter Suzanne Schiffman , also made her known to critics outside of France, who remembered her as a remarkable-looking young actress. After Pierre Novion's short film Il est trop tard pour rien with Dominique Pinon , Ogier was part of the acting ensemble of Jacques Monnet's comedy Signes extérieurs de richesse in 1983 . The next leading role in a movie was to follow in the same year, directed by the British Ken McMullen . In McMullen's experimental film Ghost Dance , in which the French philosopher Jacques Derrida made a cameo appearance , Ogier and Leonie Mellinger give two women a face who commute between London and Paris, psychoanalysis and dream interpretation .

Success and early death

However, Pascale Ogier's breakthrough as an actress did not come until 1984, after she had played Ave Maria in Jacques Richard's crime drama alongside Anna Karina . Éric Rohmer used it in the fourth part of his cycle Comedies and Proverbs , Full Moon Nights , in which he deviated from the self-invented saying “If you have two wives, you lose your soul. If you have two houses, you lose your mind “was inspired. In the drama, Ogier plays the young designer Louise, who is torn between the bourgeois relationship with her partner Rémi (played by Tchéky Karyo ), with whom she is in a Paris suburb, and the nightlife in the Seine metropolis, with whom she surrenders to the writer Octave (Fabrice Luchini). In search of her own little human happiness, Louise rents an apartment in Paris, but clinging to her own youthfulness makes her lose first her boyfriend and then herself. The light-footed argument about love and its multifaceted assessability was a success with critics and Pascale Ogier was celebrated as Rohmer's perfect female figure. The actress, who had also contributed to the costumes and production design on full moon nights , could only draw from this fame for a short time. Almost seven weeks after winning the Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival , Pascale Ogier died the night before her 26th birthday at a friend's house. The autopsy report gave a heart attack as the cause of death.

The sympathy for the sudden death of the actress with the melancholy, mature face and the mischievous demeanor was great in France. The journalist and writer Alain Pacadis (1949-1986) compared Pascale Ogier with the actress Anouk Aimée ( A man and a woman ) , while the popular singer Renaud dedicated the song P'tite conne to her on his 1985 album Mistral gagnant . The writer Marguerite Duras paid tribute to her in an article in the French daily Liberation with the words “Pascale is still alive” . A few months later, Ogier, who found her final resting place at the Cimetière du Père Lachaise , was posthumously nominated for the César for best actress for her performance on nights of the full moon .

Filmography

  • 1978: Life as it is ( La Vie comme ça , TV)
  • 1978: Perceval le Gallois
  • 1980: Käthchen von Heilbronn ( Catherine de Heilbronn , TV)
  • 1980: Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux camélias)
  • 1982: At the north bridge (Le Pont du Nord)
  • 1982: Il est trop tard pour rien (short film)
  • 1983: Signes extérieurs de richesse
  • 1983: Ghost Dance
  • 1984: Ave Maria
  • 1984: Full moon nights (Les Nuits de la pleine lune)
  • 1985: Rosette vend des roses (short film)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Pascale Ogier  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Van Gelder, Lawrence: At The Movies . In: New York Times, September 7, 1984, Section C, p. 6, Column 5, Weekend Desk.
  2. ↑ Canby, Vincent: Rivette's "Le Pont Du Nord" . In: New York Times, Oct 7, 1981, Section C, Column 1, Cultural Desk, p. 26.
  3. ↑ If you have two wives, you lose your soul . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, May 24, 2006, Culture, p. 38.
  4. ↑ cf. Film review by Reinhold Jacobi in film-dienst 06/1985.
  5. ↑ Canby, Vincent: Eric Romer's "Full Moon In Paris" Opens . In: New York Times, September 7, 1984, Section C, Column 1, Weekend Desk, p. 5.
  6. ^ French Actress Pascale Ogier Dies . In: Associated Press, Oct. 26, 1984, International News.
  7. ↑ Maslin, Janet: Ghost Dance . In: New York Times, October 31, 1984, Section C, Column 4, Cultural Desk, p. 20.
  8. ↑ a b Baecque, Antoine de: La grâce de Pascale Ogier, vingt ans après . In: Liberation No. 7295, October 25, 2004, Culture, p. 37.
  9. ↑ cf. French Wikipedia article (Version of December 1, 2006, 17:23 (CET))
  10. ↑ knerger.de: Pascale Ogier's grave
personal data
SURNAME Ogier, Pascale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1984
Place of death Paris , France