Annie Girardot won 3 Césars, for Doctor Francoise Gailland, Wretched and The Pianist. Three trophies for roles so different and which mark the extent of the talent of the one who died in 2011 as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. In her private life, the actress born on October 25 in Paris has experienced happiness, such as the birth of her child Giulia, but also great pain. There is her health which diminished her so much at the end of her life, but not only that. Her relationship with the father of her daughter, the Italian actor Renato Salvatori, was marked by terrible violence.
In the book Annie Girardot – The memory of my mother by Giulia Salvatori who collected the words of her famous mother, and excerpts of which were unveiled by france sunday, we can see the very difficult moments suffered by Annie Girardot, with Renato Salvatori. The two actors met on the set of Rocco and his brothers by Luchino Visconti, but the romanticism of the 7th art is followed by the violence of the Italian actor’s outbursts of anger.
It is one that leaves a feeling of amazement and anger. This blow given by her husband with an ashtray and which will force her to have her mouth redone, so much has she been disfigured and injured. So her words about being punched a lot in her movies take on a whole new meaning: “I don’t know why but I have always taken slaps in my films. (…) Gabin gives me one in Le rouge est mis. Robert Lamoureux fucks me in the face love is at stake Daniel Gélin hits me again in The Prey for the Shadow and many more. (…) Even the women beat me. Watch Isabelle Huppert in The Pianist.”
Her only daughter also gives the example of filming separate from her parents, when her father watched her mother and her dating. It also happened to her to arrive at her home in Paris to smash everything when she was filming abroad. Victim of domestic violence, Annie Girardot left Renato Salvatori without ever divorcing. He died of cirrhosis a week after his 55th birthday in 1988.