Death of Tonie Marshall, director of "Venus Beauty"

Director Tonie Marshall is the only woman to have won the César for Best Director. Here, in February 2018, during the 23rd Lumières Awards in Paris. Patrick KOVARIK / AFP

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The Franco-American director Tonie Marshall, the only woman to have won the César for best achievement for "Venus Beauty (Institute)" in 2000, died Thursday March 12 at the age of 68.

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She said she had become a feminist, late. In fact, his latest film, Number One , highlighted the fight of a woman of power played by Emmanuelle Devos, to impose herself in a very masculine environment that of the CAC 40.

Born in 1951, Tonie Marshall was a child of the seraglio, the daughter of Micheline Presle, and of the American producer William Marshall. It is therefore quite natural that it begins in the cinema in front of the camera. In the 1970s and 1980s, she played numerous supporting roles in television series and a few comedies such as Les sous-doués , by Claude Zidi.

“ Vénus Beauté ”, a huge popular success

In 1990, she went to directing with Pentimento . His following films will often be bittersweet chronicles of lost, depressed or skinned alive characters like Pas tres Catholique or Enfants de Salaud , both interpreted by Anémone. In 2000, with Vénus Beauté , she became the first woman to receive the César for best director. Huge popular success, the film will even be the subject of a television series.

Something rare in the world of cinema, Tonie Marshall featured women over 50, be it her favorite actress, Nathalie Baye, in Passe-passe or Catherine Deneuve in Au plus près du paradis .

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