France Roche

France Roche is a French journalist film critic television producer and presenter actress born April 2 1921 in SaintTropez and died December 14 2013 in Paris 10th She has also written books and film scripts adapted plays and acted in films She collaborated in particular with Ciné Mondial 19411944 Cinévie and especially Cinémonde of which she was editorinchief magazines devoted to cinema Marie France then FranceSoir as head of the cinema page of Pierre Lazareffs daily newspaper The newspaper then has a circulation of more than a million copies and can have three or four editions per day She is the Madame Cinema of the most powerful French newspaper the ORTF as part of the broadcasts Five columns on the front page where she notably carries out an interview with Brigitte Bardot Cinépanorama programs on cinema notably on the Cannes festival Thirty years of silence on the stars of silent cinema and Headliner long interviews with Pierre Brasseur Madeleine Renaud 1966 Jean Marais 1968 Arletty Annie Girardot 1969 Simone Signoret Paul Meurisse 1970 Michel Piccoli 1971 Jeanne Moreau 1972 Antenna 2 called by Jacqueline Baudrier she becomes deputy editorinchief and editorialist head of the culture department She is the specialist in cinema entertainment and fashion on the television news 19691986 within the framework of which she notably presents live every day during the Cannes Film Festival a column on the films in competition She also interviews Woody Allen in the show Woody Allen or the Funniest Anhedonist in the World 1979 She then participated in the shows Sexy Folies created by Pascale Breugnot 1986 in which she advised viewers on the telephone then Jaime à la Folie devoted to the Avignon Festival 198788 Canal Jimmy where at the request of Michel Thoulouze and Pierre Lescure she hosts Tas pas une idées a transgenerational show in which a guest born in the 1950s to 70s is questioned by young people from the 1990s 19912001 CinéCinéma where she presents the show Cinéciné court dedicated to short films France Inter where she is a columnist for PierreYves Guillen in the show Piment Rose France Roche is the author of several film scripts notably with Michel Audiard whom she discovered and starred in around fifteen films between 1950 and 1958 She was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961 France Roches career presents an atypical profile Familiar with the general public until around 1965 she then took on executive functions more in the background with less visibility before returning to the screens from 1986 Such a long eclipse although only apparent and her return have at the time created astonishment She was the wife of François Chalais then of Gilbert de Goldschmidt with whom she has a son Frédéric born in 1959