"Sadness" ... The world of cinema pays tribute to Tonie Marshall

The cinema world mourns the loss of Tonie Marshall. The Franco-American director, the only woman to have won the César for best achievement for Venus Beauty (Institute) in 2000, died Thursday at the age of 68, of a long illness, announced her agent Elisabeth Tanner this Thursday.

Cannes Film Festival president Pierre Lescure paid tribute to the filmmaker on Twitter. “Tonie has struggled and Tonie has just left. In life, as in her films, she often moved us, made us smile beautifully, she always seduced us. Tonie was strong and attentive, committed and delicate. To her mother, her husband, her loved ones, all our friendship. To you, Tonie, for ever, ”he wrote.

Tonie has struggled and Tonie has just left.
In life, as in her films, she often moved us, made us smile beautifully, she always seduced us.
Tonie was strong and attentive, committed and delicate.
To her Mum, her husband, her loved ones, all our friendship.
To you, Tonie, for ever.❤️ pic.twitter.com/Q5n3xZ2wAw

Jean-Paul Salomé, director of La Daronne, whose release has been postponed due to the coronavirus, took the digital pen to express his emotion. As well as La Cinémathèque, the Lumière Institute, the former president of the Cannes Festival Gilles Jacob.

Toning I think of you, your loved ones, your mother. Today life is disgusting. I cry to you.

Goodbye Tonie Marshall. Your films, your gaze, but also your friendship and your luminous presence will remain with us. pic.twitter.com/3qXrc3LVpA

How sad! Disappearance of Tonie MARSHALL alone to have won the Cesar for best Director (for Venus Beauty). She was lively, laughing, warm, crazy about cinema and life. A beautiful and good person. All my affection for Micheline Presle, her mother.

A great friend of the Cinémathèque française where she came so often, an active member of our Board of Directors, Tonie Marshall was still with us recently for the opening of the retro Godard.
Immense sadness. pic.twitter.com/J3NPFuZTvv

"We are losing a great lady"

A committed feminist, Tonie Marshall joined the Women's Foundation in 2018, chaired by Anne-Cécile Mailfert, who launched a call for donations via the #MaintenantOnAgit campaign to defend women's rights. "We are losing a great lady today," wrote the foundation.

We are very sad to learn of the death of Tonie Marshall, one of our first ambassadors who had made a strong commitment alongside us for #MaintenantOnAgit. We are losing a great lady today. https://t.co/rs5uc7iB6G

I am very sad. Her immediate and constant support had been of immense help to the @Fondationfemmes. We will miss you #TonieMarshall https://t.co/zUOrsGKnrR

Marlène Schiappa, the Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men did not fail to pay tribute to her talent and to her last film Number One .

Sadness at the announcement of the death of talented, generous #TonieMarshall, the only woman to have received a César for the best achievement with Venus Beauty Institute. Her latest film Number One told of female solidarity at the helm of businesses. I will miss her very much. pic.twitter.com/enar5Jvozb

Municipal campaign requires? The outgoing mayor and candidate in the capital Anne Hidalgo praised this "Parisian" who bequeathed "an intimate feminism".

Very great sadness. Parisian all her life, the first woman to receive the César for best achievement, Tonie Marshall leaves us by bequeathing us an intimate, caustic feminism, and more relevant than ever. https://t.co/j5lRbSfOHX

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