Pascale Ogier

Pascale Ogier ( born October 26, 1958 in Paris, † 25 October 1984 ibid ) was a French actress.

Biography

Acting debut

Pascale Ogier was born in 1958 in Paris as the daughter of well-known French actress Bulle Ogier. They began a study in the subjects of French literature and film, this broke off, however, to change against the will of her mother to acting. 1978 celebrated Ogier her acting debut with a supporting role in Jean -Claude Brisseaus TV movie Life as it is. In the same year she discovered the renowned auteur Eric Rohmer, who gave Ogier with a supporting role in his film Perceval le Gallois. In the award-winning drama, verse novel Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach took the template, Fabrice Luchini and André Dussollier were her co-stars. Pascale Ogier continued Rohmer also in his next project, the eponymous television adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist Fünfakter Kathy of Heilbronn ( 1980). Here was to see the French in the title role of an illegitimate daughter of the Emperor, whose whole life through intrigues at risk. This was followed by a small appearance in Mauro Bologninis romantic drama Lady of the Camellias, in which Isabelle Huppert and Bruno Ganz held the lead roles.

Larger gained fame Pascale Ogier in 1981, when she acted alongside their mother in Jacques Rivette's cinema production on the north bridge. In the story about two women who meet three times during a day in Paris, it is the impetuous and imaginative Baptiste who understands life as a reign of terror. The fantasy film, for the Ogier with her mother, director Rivette and scriptwriter Suzanne Schiffman had written the film script, they also made ​​critics known outside France, they remarkably looking, young actress kept in memory. After Pierre Novions short film Il est trop tard pour rien with Dominique Pinon Ogier was 1983 ensemble cast of Jacques Monnet's Signes Comedy extérieurs de richesse. The next major role in a feature film was to follow in the same year under the direction of the British Ken McMullen. In McMullen's experimental film Ghost Dance, in which the French philosopher Jacques Derrida completed a cameo appearance, along with Leonie Mellinger Ogier are two women's face, who commute between London and Paris, psychoanalysis and dream interpretation back and forth.

Success and early death

The breakthrough as an actress Pascale Ogier followed for but only in 1984, after playing in Jacques Richard's crime drama Ave Maria at the side of Anna Karina. Éric Rohmer she sat in the fourth part of its cycle comedies and proverbs one, full moon nights, in which it differs from the self-invented proverb "He who has two women loses his soul. Anyone who has two houses loses his mind " was inspired. In the drama Ogier mimes the young designer Louise, who is torn between the philistine relationship with her partner Remi (played by Tchéky Karyo ), with whom she dwells in a Paris suburb, and the nightlife in the Seine metropolis, which they with the writer Octave ( Fabrice Luchini ) surrenders. Looking for your own little human happiness Louise rents an apartment in Paris, but holding on to their own youthfulness they can only her friend and then lose yourself. The light-hearted debate about love and its varied evaluability was granted success with critics and Pascale Ogier was celebrated as a perfect woman figure Rohmer. From this fame was the actress who had been involved in full moon nights also of costumes and scenery, who live only briefly. Nearly seven weeks after winning the Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival Pascale Ogier died the night before her 26th birthday at the home of a friend. The autopsy report gave cause of death as a heart attack at.

The sympathy for the sudden death of the actress with the melancholic, mature face and the rascally appearance was big in France. The journalist and writer Alain Pacadis (1949-1986) compared Pascale Ogier with the actress Anouk Aimée ( A man and a woman), while the popular singer Renaud on his 1985 released album conne Mistral gagnant dedicated to her the song P'tite. The writer Marguerite Duras she acknowledged in an article in the French daily newspaper Libération with the words " Pascale still lives ." A few months later, Ogier, the final resting place in the Cimetière du Père Lachaise, was nominated for her performance in full moon nights posthumously for the César for Best Actress.

Filmography

Awards

• International Film Festival of Venice 1984: Best Actress for full moon nights
• César 1985: nominated for Best Actress for full moon nights