A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.
Esther Hoffenberg
Director
Bernadette Lafont
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Self
Bulle Ogier
Self
Michel Demonteix
Self
Anna Medveczky
Self
Solène Madveczky-Lafont
Self
Juliette Madveczky-Lafont
Self
Brigitte Bardot
Ingrid Bergman
Varda par Agnès79%
Daguerréotypes73%
Sidney70%
Directed by John Ford70%
Public Speaking70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Woman77%
Love, Antosha74%
McQueen74%
12 jours71%
A Plastic Ocean75%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Elstree 197661%
My Mom Jayne79%
Maria by Callas73%
Les Plages d'Agnès77%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Above Majestic73%
