Catherine Deneuve Is Not Ready to Retire and Has No Regrets

variety.com:

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Catherine Deneuve has no regrets. Though the French icon has worked with everyone from Buñuel to Bjork, she doesn’t dwell on the decades she’s spent on screen.

And, at 78, she’s certainly not thinking of retirement.  “I’m not at all ready to draw up a career assessment,” says Deneuve during an interview at the   sleek, four-star Hotel Gabriel in Paris’ Saint-Germain des Près — her go-to place for the rare interviews she gives. “I’m very focused on the present, a little on the past and even on the near-future.”  But it’s her legacy of indelible performances that’s on the menu during the interview, which is being conducted as Deneuve prepares to be celebrated at the Venice Film Festival with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Sophisticated as ever and sporting a plunging neckline that exposes her black tulle lingerie, Deneuve feels conflicted about the honor.  “It’s like a double-edged sword: It’s  recognition for work done throughout the years, but at the same time it’s often given too late.

So it’s best that it’s being done now — I wouldn’t want to go to a festival if I couldn’t stand up, if I couldn’t walk up the stairs,” says Deneuve, who suffered a mild stroke in 2019 while filming a scene for Emmanuelle Bercot’s “Living.”  Although she’s notoriously guarded about her private life, Deneuve suggests that the past few years have shaken her.  “We live in a completely different era.