Question: Is Catherine Deneuve the greatest actress of all time?Answer: Maybe. She's in the discussion.
All three of these films star Deneuve, the best performance probably being Belle Du Jour and hte best film being Roman Polanski's Repulsion, in which she plays a neurotic, lonely woman deathly afraid of men.
She's worked for seven decades making many important films. She's tied for having the most on the 1,001 list with seven. If she's good enough for Polanski, Francois Truffaut, Lars Van Tier, Jacques Demy and Luis Bunuel, then she's probably good enough to be considered for such a lofty honor.
The funny thing is, I'd never heard of her. This is really no surprise considering I didn't care much about films up until two years ago, but even then I didn't realize how good she was and what kind of legacy she's built since the 1960s. I'd heard of Brigitte Bardot, but not Deneuve. That's a shame because Deneuve is almost as sexy as Bardot (almost).
Case in point, I think I found her most desirable in Truffaut's 1980 film, The Last Metro, where she plays the proprietor of a Paris theater during Nazi occupation while hiding her Jewish husband and director in the theater's basement.
Carrying herself at an age when many are losing their appeal and being even more sultry and desirable than as a prostitute 20 years before says a lot about a woman.
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