For nearly six decades, Catherine Deneuve has been the face of French cinema, the embodiment of its sophistication, allure, and cool glamour. Following her star-making turn in Jacques Demy’s THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, Deneuve’s porcelain beauty and aloof elegance caught the attention of some of the most renowned European directors of the 1960s and ’70s, including Luis Buñuel (BELLE DE JOUR, TRISTANA), François Truffaut (MISSISSIPPI MERMAID, THE LAST METRO), and Roman Polanski (REPULSION), all of whom could only begin to scratch the surface of her enigmatic magnetism. Since then, Deneuve has continued to entrance a new generation of post–New Wave French filmmakers like Arnaud Desplechin (A CHRISTMAS TALE), confirming her status as the reigning grande dame of Gallic cinema.