By Darius
KADIVAR
Catherine Deneuve will be honored for her career at the
Los Angeles
Film Festival next month
La Deneuve poses for Yves Saint Laurent
1967 with photo
of Coronation in Iran ŠAFI & Yves Saint
Laurent (YSL)
French actress Catherine Deneuve will be honored
for her career at the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. The 63-year-old star
will be the subject of a tribute along with US actress Laura Linney (who shared the
screen with Shohreh Aghdashloo
in The Exorcism of Emily
Rose) .
Festival director Christian Gaines
said both stars "embody the raw promise of a fine performance".
The
American Film Institute event, which runs from 1 to 11 November, opens with
Lions For Lambs, starring Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.
Deneuve was Cast as Satrapi's mother
in Persepolis
Šimdb.com
Lifetime
award
A screening of Persepolis, an animated
film for which Deneuve provides the lead voice, will follow the tribute.
Linney's latest release, The Savages, will also be shown at the event.
Iranian Star Shohreh Aghdashloo (Left) and
Laura Linney
(center) worked together
on Emily Rose Šimdb.com
Deneuve, whose credits include Belle
de Jour and Dancer In the Dark, was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 for her role
in Indochine and has won two Cesars - France's equivalent of the Academy
Awards.
Last year she won a lifetime
achievement award at the Bangkok Film Festival.
Linney, who has had two Oscar
nominations (Kinsey and You Can Count On Me) ,co-starred in The Truman Show
alongside Jim Carrey.
On the small screen she played Mary
Ann Singleton in Tales of the City.
VIVE LE CINEMA
!
VIVE LA DENEUVE !
VIVE PERSEPOLIS !
Authors
notes:
Official Website of the AFI ( American Film Institute)
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About the Author: Darius
KADIVAR is a Freelance Journalist, Film Historian, and Media Consultant. He
contributes OCPC Magazine and
The MiddleEast
Magazine.
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