The wonderful Catherine Deneuve became famous thanks to the film “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.” The press called her “a piece of ice in a glass of whiskey” for her cold but magnetically attractive beauty. She played in dozens of romantic melodramas, but she herself always feared love and ran from it. A searing affair with Marcello Mastroianni left too many scars on her fragile heart, and Catherine swore to herself never again let a man get that close. “The best way to keep a man’s love is not to marry him,” she snapped.
Catherine Deneuve is still rightfully considered the most beautiful actress in France. Every top director of our time—François Ozon, Lars von Trier, and others—fights for the right to work with her. All the secrets of her personal and creative life are in this candid book!