ABSTRACT
Her career began in Faraldo’s provocative Themroc (1972), which she followed in 1974 with Blier’s equally provocative Les Valseuses, alongside Depardieu and Dewaere. Blier made an updated version, Tenue de soirée, where she accompanied Depardieu and Michel Blanc in 1986. Although most of her roles have been comic, or sexually provocative (as in Deville’s 1988 La Lectrice), her persona is often that of a sensitive and proud woman, as can be seen in Kurys’s Coup de foudre (1983) and (especially) in her role as La Maheude, Depardieu’s screen wife in Berri’s Germinal (1993).
