Her image as an impassive blonde, mythologized by Luis Buñuel's sultry Belle de jour, has long clung to her. Some directors have played on this fantasy, while others, like François Truffaut, have sought to circumvent it. Catherine Deneuve, on the other hand, has freed herself from it, pursuing her career according to her instincts, her encounters and her passion for cinema. Over the decades, she has explored all registers, from truculent comedies ("La Vie de château" by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, "Potiche" by François Ozon) to incursions into demanding worlds (with Manoel de Oliveira or Raúl Ruiz, among others), revealing unprecedented facets of her acting.