the Lyon Light Festival which ended this Friday, October 21 with the coronation of Tim Burton received a sizeable guest: that of Marlene Jobert a great figure in French cinema 60s and 70s !
While she had not appeared in public for many years, the actress and storyteller – who will celebrate her 82nd birthday on November 4 – received a more than warm welcome when he came to the festival. A “big surprise” for the principal concerned. “It’s incredible! It upset me, I didn’t expect there to be so many people, to be remembered”she told theAFP.
I passed by this glory without realizing it
Marlène Jobert was especially invited to the Lumière festival to present the new documentary directed by Dominique Besnehard and entitled It’s me… Marlene Jobert. A documentary dedicated to the life and career of the actress through film clips, interviews and archive footage. “She is very modest: when I told her about my project, she said to me: do you think it will be of interest?”explained the director to theAFP. “Being in the light, that does not interest me too much”, completed the actress. However, this documentary is likely to interest those who have been rocked by his roles in films like The Passenger of the Rain by René Clément in 1970, The Prodigious Decade by Claude Chabrol in 1971 or even We won’t grow old together by Maurice Pialat in 1972, but also those who admired his stories and audio books for children. “I missed out on this glory without realizing it, always with this worry of not being up to it”said Marlène Jobert during a master class on Thursday, October 20.
Marlène Jobert has lived in Normandy for several years. The one who says to adore “nature”, enjoys his garden while devoting himself to writing. She is the mother of the illustrious international actress who needs no introduction Eva Green and of Eva’s twin sister, Joy Green, who leads a totally different life. These are both the fruits of Marlène’s marriage to Swedish dental surgeon Walter Green. “They [ses filles Eva et Joy, NDLR] love each other very much but don’t always understand each otherexplained Marlène Jobert to the magazine Gala. One is an artist with her head in the clouds, the other is a Cartesian, she lives in Tuscany with her two sons, Giulio and Vittorio, and her husband who runs a wine-growing business.“