“I Don’t Have Time To Look Backwards”: Catherine Deneuve Talks Next Film, Shows Support For Ukraine, Says It’s Easier To Continue Working As An Older Actress In Europe Than Hollywood – Venice

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More than 50 years after she made her Venice debut as the star of Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle du Jour, Catherine Deneuve is being feted by the festival with its Golden Lion for Career Achievement.“It feels like yesterday.

It was a very important festival for me,” Deneuve told a packed press conference as she cast her mind back to her attendance in 1967.The actress took to the stage wearing a Ukrainian flag but said she did not want to make a verbal statement about the war in Ukraine.“I’m very aware like a lot of people and that was why I wanted to wear it for the press conference, but I don’t want to express myself because it’s worse and worse.

My mind and my spirit, [is with them] every day but I don’t have any declarations to make.”The actress said she found it hard to take stock of her career.“It’s always difficult to stop, to look at things as if you had decided everything, that it was a decision thinking of the future but it’s never like that,” she said.“There’s a lot of luck, good encounters, and good decisions, and sometimes bad, or if not bad, wrong.

Not everything belongs to the actors, we’re only a part of a film. Sometimes you take good decisions, but the result is not what it is supposed to be.”Quizzed on what had been the biggest challenges of her career, Deneuve likened the act of embarking on a film to setting off on a walk in the mountains.“The difficulties emerge when we start filming.