DEAD OF MARIE LAFORET THE GIRL WITH GOLD EYES

Singer and actress Marie Laforêt, who has been living in Switzerland for about 40 years, died in Geneva on Saturday, her family said.

She has appeared in 35 films and sold more than 35 million albums.

She was directed by the greatest in the cinema, embodying her first role in Plein Soleil by René Clément alongside Alain Delon.

She was then only 20 years old, but the actress broke into the New Wave.

Under the Italian sky of the island of Ischia, she embodies Marge, an indolent lover, often dressed in a red and white marinière or molded in denim shorts.

After a first invitation to the Cannes Film Festival in 1959, the young woman follows the roles.

The actress will play on television and in the cinema under the direction of Claude Chabrol, Georges Lautner or Jean-Pierre Mocky. Marie Laforêt also sings nostalgic hits, as it snowed on Yersteday, in reference to the separation of the Beatles, or romantic ritournelles, such as The Harvest of Love, Marie Sweetness, Marie Anger.

"I do not have a voice, I have a stamp," she noted modestly.

Little by little, she gives up the recordings to privilege the writing - she writes her own songs but also a book noticed:

Tales and legends of my private life . Marie Laforêt then moved to Geneva, where she opened an art gallery.

Marie Laforêt, whose real name is Maïtena Doumenach, was born on October 5, 1939 in Soulac-sur-Mer, in Gironde.

At the age of 3, she says thirty-five years later, she is raped by a neighbor: "Impossible to talk about it for decades. "
"Without this rape," she says, "I would not have done a public job that went against my natural shyness.

I chose an outlet job.

Married five times, Marie Laforêt had three children, including Lisa Azuelos, director of LOL, with Sophie Marceau.

"My career is odds and ends, but my life is filled from start to finish," she said.