Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, the new ambassador of Parisian fashion. (Credit: Netflix/DR)
In a small inn in Indre-et-Loire, almost 250km south of Paris, she still embodies the carefree spirit of a woman in her 20s. Before French director Roger Vadim's camera, actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu seems to embrace her body and desires, her antics and naivety during an endless Indian summer.For the director of And God Created Woman, who saw her potential as an actress, she loses herself in a controversial character and a hazy plot just before the All Saints' Day vacation in 1982. "Surprise Party was one of his last films. He was obviously quite pleased to be surrounded by fresh young faces, but he was completely absent, aging," the actress explains to L'Orient-Le Jour. "He only taught me to be wary," she continues, recalling the ramblings of a director at the end of his career, scorned by an industry that had abandoned him after a...
In a small inn in Indre-et-Loire, almost 250km south of Paris, she still embodies the carefree spirit of a woman in her 20s. Before French director Roger Vadim's camera, actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu seems to embrace her body and desires, her antics and naivety during an endless Indian summer.For the director of And God Created Woman, who saw her potential as an actress, she loses herself in a controversial character and a hazy plot just before the All Saints' Day vacation in 1982. "Surprise Party was one of his last films. He was obviously quite pleased to be surrounded by fresh young faces, but he was completely absent, aging," the actress explains to L'Orient-Le Jour. "He only taught me to be wary," she continues, recalling the ramblings of a director at the end of his career, scorned by an industry that had abandoned him after...