Oh marriage! The puzzle of the guest list and the seating plan, the choice of the wedding dress, the sometimes embarrassing speeches of the witnesses, the family and friends reunited for better, but also for worse, without forgetting… his French comedies! Of wedding of the century with Anemone and Thierry Lhermitte at sense of celebration with the late Jean-Pierre Bacri, passing par Weddings!, D-DayMother-in-law or even Our tiny little wedding in theaters on April 26, 2023, the wedding and its 1,001 adventures have been the subject of numerous films. Cakebroadcast this Monday, April 17, 2023 at 9:10 p.m. on France 3, digs this furrow.
A fine line-up of actors
Cake, it is the story of Vincent (Jérémie Rénier) and Bérengère (Clémence Poésy) who celebrate their religious marriage surrounded by their two families. The opportunity for the director, Denys Granier-Deferre to bring together a fine line-up of actors. Let us mention in particular Aurore Clément in the role of the mother of the bride and Dominique Lavanant in that of the mother of the bride, Julie Depardieu and Julie Gayet who embody the sisters of Bérengère or even Christophe Alévêque in the skin of Vincent’s brother, accompanied by his woman played by Léa Drucker. Finally, in the role of Bérengère’s grandmother who falls completely by chance on her childhood love since it is the priest in charge of the religious ceremony (played by the late Jean-Pierre Marielle), we find the huge Danielle Darrieux.
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110 films over eight decades
And Cake holds a place a little apart in the filmography of the actress, it is quite simply because it is with this feature film, in which she played in 2009 when she was 92 years old, that ended the longest career in the history of cinema. Indeed, Danielle Darrieux shot in her very first film, Prom, in 1931 and since then she has never left the big screen. She has gone through eight decades of cinema, shot in 110 films, and has been directed by the greatest directors, from Henri-Georges Clouzot to Billy Wilder via André Cayatte, Max Ophüls, Claude Autant-Lara, Joseph Manciewicz, Sacha Guitry, Julien Duvivier Henri Verneuil, Gérard Oury, Claude Chabrol, André Téchiné or even Claude Sautet. We particularly remember her role as facetious Granny in eight women by François Ozon, where she played the mother of Catherine Deneuve, just like in The Demoiselles de Rochefort of Jacques Demy 35 years earlier. With his disappearance on October 17, 2017 at the age of 100, eight years after the filming of Cake so, it’s a whole page in the history of talkies that has turned…
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