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Saturday 4 July 2020
Hirokazu Kore-eda and Catherine Deneuve look for 'The Truth'

AP Film Writer me a source of both pride
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Cath- and anxiety," he said.
erine Deneuve plays an On set, he found her to be
icon of French cinema in a free spirit with little van-
"The Truth." She even chose ity but always a cigarette
her own middle name, Fa- around. "She's like a per-
bienne, for her character son that is also like a child
who says things like, "I'd but extremely charming,"
rather have been a bad he said. "She's not one who
friend and a bad mother learns all her lines before-
and a great actress." hand. She gets the gist. She
But don't go looking for gets on set and she adjusts
some essential truths, or acting together with the
gossip, about Deneuve in other actors who are mov-
lines like that, or in Fabi- ing around. I thought that
enne's eyeroll at the men- for this movie that would fit
tion of Brigitte Bardot. The the situation."
76-year-old insists that simi- This is not to imply that she
larities end with the name. doesn't take her work se-
"To me she's a stranger," riously. She does. In fact,
Deneuve said, cigarette in partway through the movie
hand, after "The Truth's" de- she came to him and asked
but at the Venice Film Fes- if she could see anything
tival. "It's really so far away This image released by IFC Films shows, foreground from left, Juliette Binoche, Catherine De- edited, especially scenes
from me." neuve, Ethan Hawke and Clémentine Grenier in a scene from "The Truth." that she wasn't in herself.
She has a great relation- Associated Press Deneuve wanted to grasp,
ship with her children and "the whole of the movie."
her co-stars and can't think It was a truly international movie it's not important to "It was really fun to play be- "I gave her a DVD with
of any friendly rivalry with affair, with a script primar- share the same language. cause it was so exaggerat- about 1/3 of the movie on
peers from her past. But it ily in French and English, It's important to share the ed," she said. "It reminded it and she was really happy
doesn't make "The Truth," a director who spoke nei- same vision,'" Kore-eda said me of the actresses from about it," Kore-eda said.
available on demand Fri- ther and actors who didn't through a translator. "I think the 50s or 60s in America "She said, 'Thanks to this, I
day, any less of a fun send- speak Japanese. Ethan that's exactly the case." because you have all these got to understand your hu-
up of an imperious, larger- Hawke, who plays Lumir's And all the actors adjusted people around. You know, mor, your rhythm.'"
than-life star who might not actor husband, didn't in their own way. Deneuve I don't have a press agent, Deneuve loves to work and
remember things the same speak French either. Suffice said after she'd finish a take, I don't have a stylist, I don't despite her revered status
way her grown daughter it to say, the Paris shoot was she would look at her direc- have a manager." will often take a chance
Lumir does. little daunting for everyone tor before anything else. Kore-eda counted himself on an unknown if the script
The tragicomic portrait of considering the film is a "It's important. You see little as a fan of Deneuve's and is compelling. She'd even
a star in her final act who is dialogue-heavy character signs," she said. "After that peppered her with ques- consider American televi-
juggling a film, the release study about the nature of we talk. But I always try to tions about her films with sion, but she doesn't get
of her memoirs and a visit truth and memory and a read something on his face French New Wave legends many offers from across the
from her daughter, played delicate mother-daughter first." like François Truffaut and Atlantic. The few that do
by Juliette Binoche, comes relationship with moments Deneuve relished the role Jacques Demy. come her way, she said,
by way of "Shoplifters" di- of comedy and drama. and getting the chance to "Having my film in her film- are "not very interesting."
rector Hirokazu Kore-eda in But Hawke found a way to work with Binoche. Some- ography — which is as Retirement is not something
his first film outside of his na- comfort his director. how the two had never prestigious as the history of she thinks of. The cinema
tive Japan. "He said, 'To make a good been in a film together. French cinema itself — is for still excites her too much.q
Willie Nelson's July Fourth picnic is virtual in virus era

SPICEWOOD, Texas (AP) and Kinky Friedman.
— Willie Nelson's annual Some of the artists will per-
Fourth of July Picnic is go- form at Nelson's Luck Ranch
ing ahead this year, but in Spicewood, northwest of
to reduce concerns about Austin. Others will stream
the coronavirus the event live from elsewhere.
will be virtual. Nelson's event started in
Fans can tune in to the 1972 and has been held
nearly 50-year-old music most years since, moving
bash Saturday via luck. around Texas and occa-
stream and williepicnic. sionally outside the Lone
com. Tickets for the picnic Star State. It typically draws
are on sale at williepicnic. thousands.
com. The 87-year-old Nelson's
Other performers expect- 70th album was released
ed to play include Sheryl Friday. "First Rose of Spring"
Crow, Ziggy Marley, Steve features two new tunes
In this July 4, 2006, file photo, Willie Nelson addresses fans attending his Fourth of July Picnic in Ft. Earle and Nelson's fellow plus Nelson's take on songs
Worth, Texas. Texas-based singers Lyle by Toby Keith and Chris
Associated Press Lovett, Robert Earl Keen Stapleton.q