Marie-France Pisier, 1944-2011

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• James Keepnews says:

  April 24, 2011 at 2:29 pm

  Quelle hor­reur! A tre­mend­ous loss of a dis­tinct­ive, com­mand­ing act­ress who rarely received the atten­tion she deserved. COUSIN, COUSINE receives the pre­cise lack of atten­tion its tri­fling soft­core­ness deserves, but was­n’t she hys­ter­ic­al (in at least two senses) in it? Possibly my favor­ite per­form­ance by her was more recent: her Madame Verdurin in Raul Ruiz’ incom­par­able TIME REGAINED, as Proustian as cinema is liable to ever get. There’s such a know­ing qual­ity here (and in C, C) to her char­ac­ter­’s clue­less­ness, bour­gie hauteur as fate.
  Adieu, M‑F P.

• Brian says:

  April 24, 2011 at 7:26 pm

  I loved her so much in ANTOINE AND COLLETTE that I found myself very dis­ap­poin­ted that she was not Antoine Doinel’s final romantic choice in LOVE ON THE RUN (even though it makes com­plete sense that her char­ac­ter would be too smart and prac­tic­al to settle down with him). I loved her in CELINE AND JULIE, too.

• Donald says:

  April 25, 2011 at 10:50 pm

  She’s also lovely in the rel­at­ively recent (and very good) film “Son Of Gascogne” – one of many cameos that are a who’s who of French cinema. A real loss.