Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

Catherine Deneuve, the enduring icon of French cinema, allows the camera to bypass the usual glamour. The documentary trails the actress into a recording studio, where she gives voice to fragments from her private diaries and letters, and into her Paris apartment, a space dense with memory. Glimpses of her defining roles — from *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* to *Repulsion* and *Belle de Jour* — intersect with present-day reflections. This is less a career retrospective and more an intimate study of the space between the public persona and the private self, between the screen goddess and the woman contemplating the passage of time.