Re : Sophie Marceau

["Dinh LeChi" <lechi_d@hotmail.com>]

Hi, 

SM is one of my most favorite actresses. I am mesmerized by her charm at 
the very first time I saw her. It's true that she has a smack of Asian 
beauty but I am not sure she has Vietnamese blood. If you would like to 
hear the song "Dream is my reality", the soundtrack for La Boum I, you 
can go this site :

http://www.saglac.qc.ca/~dufourjm/Sophie/presentation_eng.html
There is a French version of this site too.

Well, here  is a brief about her acting career : 

After starring in 15 films in her native France, SOPHIE MARCEAU made her 
first English-language film -- the Academy Award-winning "Braveheart" -- 
in a starring role opposite Mel Gibson. Since then she has starred "Anna 
Karenina" and in the upcoming "Firelight," also in English. 

Marceau became a French star at the age of 13 with her debut film, "La 
Boum," which was also an international success. Two years later she 
starred in the sequel to "La Boum" and received the Cesar Award for Most 
Promising Newcomer. 

At age 16, Marceau starred with Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve 
in "FortSaganne" and then starred again with Depardieu in Maurice 
Pialat's "Police." In that same year, 1984, Marceau made the first of 
three films with Polish director Andrzej Zulawski, "L'Amour Braque"; 
Zulawski also directed her in "Mes Nuits Sont Plus Belles Que Vos Jours" 
and "La Note Bleue." 

Marceau recently starred in "D'Artagnan's Daughter," in which she 
performed her own swordfighting and most of the riding stunts; and in 
Antonioni's "Beyond the Clouds" with John Malkovich. Her other film 
credits include  "Fanfan," with Vincent Perez; "Pour Sacha"; "Pacific 
Palisades"; "L'Etudiante"; "Chouans"; "Descente Aux Enfers"; and 
"Joyeuses Paques." 

Her stage debut in Jean Anouilh's "Euridyce" in 1991 brought her a 
Moliere Award for most Promising Newcomer. She also starred as Eliza 
Dolittle in "Pygmalion" at the Theatre des Arts Hebertot. 

Marceau directed a nine-minute film, "L'Aube A L'Envers," which opened 
"Un Certain Regard" at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. 
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Her new film Anna Karenina is not very warmly received here in the US. 
Some papers label her role a "disastrous casting decision", her English 
"incomprehensible French accent". As her fan, I am really disapointed 
but the fact is if your English is not perfect, it's hard to get into 
the Hollywood circle. 

I don't know how "Anna Karenina" is perceived by the French media but my 
friends there told me they didn't find her performance satisfactory at 
all; but as she is a French star, they blame the film's director for her 
failure.

It's also very difficult to find her videos in the US too. There are 
only Laboum I, Fort Sagane and Police which are not her best films. 
These films are imported mostly due to the award-winning reputation of 
Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, not because of SM herself. 

In VN, SM is most remembered by the film "L'etudiante" or Nu+~ Sinh 
Vie^n. I also saw La Boum II in Alliance francaise de Hanoi.

Is there any SM fan here in VNSA?

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