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20 February 2020 |
On Sunday Vincent spent the
day at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière,
an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris. He is currently
working on the preparation of a photo book on models and muses. For
almost five hours, he photographed with talent and professionalism.
Other sessions are planned, as well as an exhibition of his photos
at the Academy.

Back in Vevey, Switzerland,
this week, Vincent met with Karine Vasarino and did some podcasts
with
rts.ch. One of his quotes is "Today I'm exactly where I
wanted to be". The statue you see in some of these photos is Charlie
Chaplin, one of Vincent's heroes from his childhood.

Actor Pierce Brosnan
(one handsome dude!)
has joined the list of guests at this year's Rencontres du 7e
Art Lausanne. He will meet the public and present
his 1999 thriller, "The Thomas Crown Affair" on March 8 at the Capitole
Cinema. You may remember that the 66-year-old Irish-American actor took
on the role of James Bond between 1995 and 2002. However, I
particularly loved his comical performance (not his singing!) in
both "Mamma Mia!" films.

On the last Wednesday of each
month "T" magazine and the Beau-Rivage Palace have organized "Le
Temps de l'inspiration". In the form of an intimate interview
with a special theme, the event features a personality from the
creative field. Guest of the day this week was Vincent.

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18 February 2020 |
Last Friday Swiss paper Le
Matin ran a February 11th interview in Lausanne with Vincent
regarding the bad press director Roman Polanski is presently
receiving. The interview took place before the announcement of the
collective resignation of the management of the César
Awards. Vincent, who has done two films with Polanski and has known
him for thirty years, agreed to give journalist
Laurent Flückiger his
opinion on the matter. Here are his
comments:
"All these resurgent
cases date more or less from the same period
after the assassination of Sharon Tate. They re-appear in the
press when films are released. I spoke with Roman
and he barely remembered the person we were talking about."
[Valentine Monnier has accused
Polanski of having sexually assaulted her in 1975 in his chalet in
Gstaad.]
"He didn't kill anyone," Vincent
continues. "He did bullshit, yes, but he asked for forgiveness.
He went to jail. He was persecuted
all his life because he fled from American justice. He is a man who
is 86 years old today. After forty years, I tell myself that it is
time to forgive him. His victim,
Samantha Geimer, raped at 13 years old in 1977,
has been telling everyone to leave Roman Polanski alone for
twenty years. " [Samantha Geimer indeed
reaffirmed in her memoir that she had
forgiven the director.]
Vincent concludes with, "It is a situation
that saddens me. It's hard for his
children. When you really know the facts,
you tell yourself that maybe it's time to leave it alone. He has
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12 February 2020 |
More news on next month's Rencontres du 7e art
in Switzerland. Other films to be screened include Woody Allen's
"Annie Hall" (la-di-da...), Blake Edwards' "Breakfast at Tiffany's",
Jane Campion's "The Piano" (lovely Michael Nyman soundtrack), and
Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront", which is featured on this
year's poster. A homage to Marlon Brando is also planned. I am an
ardent fan of Brando and have watched almost all of his films. I
actually saw "Last Tango in Paris" when I was in Paris in 1972 and I
keep the tango music on my i-phone.

I came across a few more
photos taken at the "Rouje" boutique opening in Paris last
September. It appears that an artist was hired to draw some of their
guests.

When Vincent travels to
Switzerland, one of his favorite men's clothing stores is Scabal.
In the first three photos, he poses with Eric Becker, head of Scabal
Geneva. Great motto - "A passion for cloth". These photos were taken
over the past two years.
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11 February 2020 |
The
3rd edition of the Rencontres du 7e art will be held in
Lausanne, Switzerland, from March 4-8. The theme this year will be
love on the big screen featuring 49 films such as "Casablanca", my
husband's favorite! This cinema event was created by Vincent in 2018
in collaboration with the Swiss Cinémathèque.
Many guests will be present to talk about the creative process and
the production process of the making of films. Isabella Rosselini
will present in particular "Blue Velvet" by David Lynch. Love that
film! An evening tribute will also be devoted to film director and
writer Bertrand Blier. Vincent reports, "We are so happy to have
him. He's a huge poet." Among the many guests are Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi, Patrice Leconte, Irène Jacob, Valeria Golino, Rossy
de Palma, Danièle Thompson, Pascal Greggory, Elsa Zylberstein, and
Marie Gillain. You may notice that many of these guests have
co-starred with Vincent.
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08 February 2020 |
CYRANO
DE BERGERAC is getting a 30th Anniversary Blu-ray
special edition courtesy of BFI. The DVD, which
includes special features, will be released on February 24, 2020.
Humorous and touching in equal measure, the film is a spectacular
and vibrant adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic novel. Depardieu
has never been better than as the swaggering scribe, his performance
enriched by the vigorous direction of Jean-Paul Rappeneau and lavish
period design. The film's cast also includes Vincent and Anne
Brochet. The synopsis reads: Cyrano, a swashbuckling hero
with a gift for verse - and a prominent proboscis - is madly in love
with the most beautiful woman in Paris. Deterred though by his
feelings of physical inadequacy, he instead uses his poetic skills
to support another hapless suitor. But will the object of their
affection realize who she’s really falling
for?

Yesterday Vincent was a guest
on Radio Vostok based in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the
topics discussed was the link between contemporary art and cinema.
You can listen to the French interview
at this link.


Also from Switzerland is a
23-minute video interview with Vincent from the rts.ch
archives. It is dated April 13, 1992, almost 28 years ago. So young
and innocent!

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22 January 2020 |
Film
director Roman Polanski has swept the nomination list for the 45th
César awards for French cinema, sparking outrage.
Polanski's film "An Officer and
a Spy", or "J'accuse"
in French, received 12 nominations at the awards, which are the
French equivalent of the Oscars. This is the
second Polanski film that Vincent has starred in. Alain
Terzian, the head of the Césars, defended Polanski's nominations,
arguing that the body "should not take moral positions" in giving
awards. The film is about the Dreyfus
affair, a political scandal in France in the late 1800s which saw a
French Jewish army officer wrongly convicted of spying. In
September, the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film
Festival. This is not the first time the
Césars have faced controversy because of Polanski. In 2017, he was
picked to head the award's jury, but stepped down after the move
sparked outrage.
According to the BBC, for
now it seems quite unlikely that the movie
will be shown in the UK, either in movie
theatres or on television. Nor will it illuminate screens in the
United States. So dangerous is the potential backlash of
collaborating with Polanski that no British or American distributor
will risk showing the movie, which opened to great acclaim and
box-office success in France, though some protests have occurred
there too. |
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