It’s a biopic that is likely to make people talk. Léa Domenach will dedicate her next film to the story of the life of Bernadette and Jacques Chirac. Catherine Deneuve was chosen to interpret the one who is nicknamed the favorite first lady of the French. “It took a woman of character – and a phenomenal performer – to carry The turtlethe film that chronicles the life of Bernadette Chirac“, report our colleagues from Point of view. On Instagram, we can discover the first images of filming which shows the impeccable actress in a suit, alongside Michel Vuillermoz, who lends his features to a larger-than-life Jacques Chirac.
But this is what biopic has the gift of annoying Claude Chiracthe daughter of the iconic political couple, as reported by Paris Match this June 30, 2022. The 59-year-old woman first regretted that Léa Domenach did not take care to inform her of this project. But not only. “They may not know that Bernadette is still alive“, ironically Claude Chirac. If indeed Jacques Chirac did indeed disappear on September 26, 2019, Bernadette Chirac, she is still alive. And it is still rare to produce a biopic on a personality still in this world.
Claude Chirac, annoyed, quips
The wife of the late French president will celebrate her 98th birthday on May 18, and has not commented on this biopic with Catherine Deneuve and Michel Vuillermoz, “stunning realism” according to our colleagues. We have not seen her publicly since 2020. She was then in a wheelchair on the banks of the Seine, near the quai Voltaire in Paris. Since the death of Jacques Chirac, his wife whom he affectionately nicknamed the turtle because of her small size, and because she walked quietly behind her long strides, withdrew from public life.It is Claude Chirac, their daughter and former communications adviser to her father, who reports from his news. “She’s doing the best she can. The situation has calmed down, she is fine“, she had thus hinted last March, to The mountain. She then spoke of her life as a caregiver.