The French actress receives the award for her entire career. Far from retiring, she has just shot a film where she will play Bernadette Chirac and is starting a new shoot, writes senegal.detailzero.com.

Catherine Deneuve, who receives an honorary Golden Lion in Venice on Wednesday evening in tribute to her long career, prefers at 78 to concentrate on her multiple shoots. Asked by AFP during a press conference about the meaning of this award, she replied: “We are not looking back. It’s not a refusal, it’s that we don’t have time, and it’s not part of my life, it’s mostly that!

“I shot in Paris a few weeks ago and I’m starting an English-language film shot in Belgium in less than a month, so that’s the reality of the present”, she continued. The film shot in Paris, due out this year, is based on the couple formed by French President Jacques Chirac and his wife Bernadette, “in a light and witty style”, she clarified.

The actress came to the Venice Festival premiere in 1967 with beautiful day by Luis Bunuel, who left that year with the Golden Lion. “Yesterday”, she whispered in an ironic tone, while saluting “a very important festival for me”. She is a regular in Venice. His last coming was in 2019, when The truth by the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda had been presented as the opening. She also chaired the jury of the 63e Mostra, in 2006, and received the award for best actress in 1998 for Place Vendôme by Nicole Garcia.