It was the actress Christine Boisson, who made her first film in Emmanuellewho died on Monday October 21 at the age of 68 in Paris from a lung disease, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from her daughter, Juliette Kowski. “She reached for the stars and I want her to be remembered with grace because she was a graceful actress”she told AFP.
A young model, she was still a minor when director Just Jaeckin recruited her, aged 17, to play Marie-Ange, a sassy teenager who would become famous for a masturbation scene in the erotic film that became in his cult. Emmanuelle (1974).
During the 1970s, she multiplied the roles there, often naked, before systematically rejecting them and devoting herself to the theatre.
In 1982, Christine Boisson will play the character of Ida, in the film woman’s identity, by director Michelangelo Antonioni. “The matter is simple”write The World in his review at the time: “Niccolo has to make a film in Rome. He searches for a female interpreter, collects photos cut out of magazines, meets Mavi, a rather strange, beautiful, attractive girl. He fell in love with it to the point of obsession, to the point of forgetting his film. Because there is a mystery in Mavi’s life: Niccolo receives phone calls telling him to stop all relations with her. Some kind of “gorilla” follows him. Mavi avoids explanations and, one fine day, disappears. Not giving up on finding her, Niccolo finds help and love from another person, Ida, a theater actress. »
“Smoker’s disease”
Trained at the conservatory, the actress has appeared in around fifty films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Yves Boisset, Claude Lelouch, Olivier Assayas, Philippe Garrel and Laetitia Masson and later with Maïwenn in Actors’ Ball.
In 2010, this actress, who said she was a victim of mother’s circumcision in the press, tried to escape from the window. Since then, she has barely worked and has been suffering from pulmonary syndrome, which “tobacco’s disease”according to his daughter.
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