Famed for her turbulent lifestyle and intense on-and-off relationship with legendary French actor Alain Delon, Austrian actress Romy Schneider became a sensation at home when she was still in her teens by starring in a series of films about Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the hugely successful Austrian Sissi trilogy. She later moved to France where she made some of the most successful films of her career with some of the most acclaimed directors of the 60s and 70s including Luchino Visconti, René Clément and many more.
A year before her untimely death at the age of 43 and whilst at a detox clinic in the seaside town of Quiberon, Brittany, Schneider posed for exclusive photos and gave a deeply alarming and honest interview to a German journalist about her state of mind. In her new film 3 Days In Quiberon, director Emily Atef (The Stranger in Me) offers a beautifully...
A year before her untimely death at the age of 43 and whilst at a detox clinic in the seaside town of Quiberon, Brittany, Schneider posed for exclusive photos and gave a deeply alarming and honest interview to a German journalist about her state of mind. In her new film 3 Days In Quiberon, director Emily Atef (The Stranger in Me) offers a beautifully...
- 11/16/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Marie Bäumer eerily impersonates the Austrian-born film star in an intense drama charting an episode in her real-life decline
Emily Atef’s film is a kind of filmic biopic-footnote, an episode from the real-life decline of troubled Austrian-born movie star Romy Schneider, famed for her collaborations with Tavernier, Welles and Chabrol and her tempestuous personal life. It is a curious movie: ruminative, lugubrious and theatrical – intense at some moments; at others low-key and almost inconsequential. The black-and-white cinematography gives it the look of a 70s picture by Wim Wenders.
In 1981, Schneider retreated to a rehab resort in Quiberon in Brittany, where she conducted her final, recklessly indiscreet interview with Stern magazine’s star writer Michael Jürgs, who was accompanied by photographer Robert Lebeck – chiefly because she already knew and trusted Lebeck. The results laid bare her emotional agony and money worries, and this has here been translated into fictional form by Atef,...
Emily Atef’s film is a kind of filmic biopic-footnote, an episode from the real-life decline of troubled Austrian-born movie star Romy Schneider, famed for her collaborations with Tavernier, Welles and Chabrol and her tempestuous personal life. It is a curious movie: ruminative, lugubrious and theatrical – intense at some moments; at others low-key and almost inconsequential. The black-and-white cinematography gives it the look of a 70s picture by Wim Wenders.
In 1981, Schneider retreated to a rehab resort in Quiberon in Brittany, where she conducted her final, recklessly indiscreet interview with Stern magazine’s star writer Michael Jürgs, who was accompanied by photographer Robert Lebeck – chiefly because she already knew and trusted Lebeck. The results laid bare her emotional agony and money worries, and this has here been translated into fictional form by Atef,...
- 11/14/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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