Catherine Deneuve reappears amid applause in Cannes after the stroke she suffered a year and a half ago

Recovered, serene, smiling... Catherine Deneuve has again stepped on Cannes in its 74th edition, the first since the pandemic and also that of the actress's retour after having suffered a stroke in November 2019.

Just 3 years older than the French festival par excellence, the performer has presented her new film De son vivant, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, in which she shares a leading role with Benoít Magimel, Cécile de France, Gabriel Sara and Oscar Morgan among others. He has done so bragging of his imperishable beauty, his characteristic blond hair and two styles that squandered elegance in black.

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On Saturday, Catherine Deneuve appeared with Emmanuelle Bercot, an actress, director and screenwriter, 53 years old, who already took Cannes' palm for her role in the film Mi Amor in 2015. The interpreter wore a wide black dress in brocked velvet, with a golden necklace and a yellow bag breaking with superstitions.

Catherine is 77 years old and has been working in cinema since the late 1950s. His first great success was in 1964, under the direction of Jacques Demy, in the Cherbourg umbrellas. A film that inspired the ostracized La la land and gave way to a career of the most prolific and international. He worked with Roman Polanski, Luis Buñuel or François Truffaut. Later he also followed the orders of Lars von Trier or François Truffaut

De son vivant's team has posed on the traditional red stairs of Cannes. Her cast partners, the press and the audience have tucked Catherine in a loving and close manner, and she has been delighted to step on the carpet again.

The French media describe her return as that of a queen, surrounded by applause and with the support of her companions. Besides, Catherine herself has been funny and natural.

Photographers have also pushed the knee to the ground to immortalize Catherine, who has posed as the expert she is. 'I Don't think I've ever been excited like this in Cannes, 'she admitted sincerely. Its director knew that the film was in the background and that it was Catherine who starred in the festival day.

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On 6 November 2019 Le Parisien published that Catherine Deneuve had been admitted to a 'serious state' after suffering from an indisposition that turned out to be a 'very limited and reversible' ischemic stroke. He was working since October in Paris, precisely on the film he has now released in Cannes.

Despite the gravity she seemed to have her case, the performer has reappeared fully recovered, with a youthful look, pants and shirt in a mad look and leaving her purse to be the protagonist of styling.

For the team, the film has meant a before and after in their way of understanding life: 'this terrible situation has arrived … so the film has taken on a different dimension and strength', said Catherine, referring to the pandemic and without explaining how the recovery process in the middle of the confinement has been for her. What has been known in recent months has been that the actress has left some of her bad habits, such as tobacco, and replaced him with what she considers to be a lesser evil: an electronic cigarette, according to Pierre Lescure, President of the Cannes festival, to Le Parisien.

"he has faced a test, but he still has many films to work on," assured the same French media director Pierre Salvadori, with whom he collaborated in Dans la Cour in 2013.

And even more, because after finishing shooting De son vivant, Catherine Deneuve still had strength and won! To participate in Saint Habib, under the direction of Benoít Mariage in Belgium... Don't stop!

During the press conference, they explained the difficulties of resuming filming after the pandemic, but the truth is that he offered Catherine enough time to recover from her stroke. He's all right now, and the whole world has been able to celebrate it thanks to his comeback in Cannes.

During the press conference we saw Catherine wearing a fuchsia pink mask, once again putting the touch of color on her stylist with an accessory that, in this case, is essential