Catherine Deneuve will climb the steps « Head up »

Like the title of the film by Emmanuelle Bercot with Benoit Magimel, which makes the inauguration of this new edition.

Tonight, May 13, 2015, Pierre Lescure will honour for the first time his new position as President of the Cannes Film Festival. In accordance with tradition, he will welcome his guests to the top of the steps; and tonight an important event since for this premiere he will receive Catherine Deneuve the French star, with whom he lived eight years.

He greets a woman in his memoirs « funny, brilliant and brave », anecdote in support : in a tea room, two ladies deviant them and ask about the couple, with very doubtful comments on the « Jewish nose » Lescure. On leaving, Catherine Deneuve calmly struck them: « Ladies, his nose could be Jewish, he'd be very fine. In this case, he's Bourbonian and I'm fucking you. « . Character « Deneuve » Hey!
In the Sunday newspaper he said, a few weeks ago: « With Catherine, we never showed up, but we lived together from 1983 to 1991 »It is true that Pierre Lescure, has not the beauty of Brad Pitt or Collin Farrell (who will present « The Lobster » in a few days) But he still created Canal plus that will follow President Lescure for the Grand Journal (19h) by Antoine de Caunes: The loop is closed.

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