Fanny Ardant Rekindles Love's Flames in 'Paris'
French actress Fanny Ardant stars in Richard LaGravenese's "Pigalle" segment of the movie Paris, Je T'aime.
French actress Fanny Ardant stars in Richard LaGravenese's "Pigalle" segment of the movie Paris, Je T'aime.
Fanny Ardant is known as the grande dame of French movies. In 1979, she was a 36-year-old actress in a French soap opera when the late Francois Truffaut saw her.
The great director cast her opposite Gerard Depardieu in The Woman Next Door. She became a star, and their collaboration became personal: They had a child together.
Now 58, Ardant was in Washington and New York last week, performing a one-woman play by Marguerite Duras and promoting the movie Paris Je T'aime, or Paris, I Love You.
The movie is a collection of 18 vignettes, each set in a different Paris neighborhood. She and Bob Hoskins play a married couple in Pigalle, trying to rekindle the romantic flame.
Ardant talks to Robert Siegel about the film, her acting career and what she thinks about being known as a grande dame.
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