Name	René Féret
Birthdate	May 26, 1945
Birthplace	La Bassée, France
Occupation	ActorScreenwriterFilm directorFilm producer
Yearsactive	1973 - present

René Féret (born 26 May 1945) is a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. His film Solemn Communion, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

Selected filmography

Solemn Communion (1977 - directed)

The Mystery of Alexina (1985 - directed)

Dakan (1997 - produced)

References

External links

Category:1945 births Category:Living people Category:French film actors Category:French screenwriters Category:French film directors Category:French film producers

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829), nicknamed "Nannerl", was an Austrian musician. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart.

In childhood she went by the diminutive form "Nannerl", and later on was called "Marianne".

Childhood

Maria Anna Mozart was born in Salzburg. When she was seven years old, her father Leopold Mozart started teaching her to play the harpsichord. Leopold took her and Wolfgang on tours of many cities, such as Vienna and Paris, to showcase their talents. In the early days she sometimes received top billing and she was noted as an excellent harpsichord player and fortepianist.

.]] However, given the views of her parents, prevalent in her society at the time, it became impossible as she grew older for Marianne to continue her career any further. According to New Grove, "from 1769 onwards she was no longer permitted to show her artistic talent on travels with her brother, as she had reached a marriageable age." Wolfgang went on during the 1770s to many artistic triumphs while traveling in Italy with Leopold, but Marianne had to stay home in Salzburg with her mother. She likewise stayed home with Leopold when Wolfgang visited Paris and other cities (1777-1779) accompanied by his mother.

There is evidence that Marianne wrote musical compositions, as there are letters from Wolfgang praising her work, but the voluminous correspondence of father Leopold never mentions any of her compositions, and none have survived.

Eventually Marianne married a wealthy magistrate, Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg (23 August, 1783), and settled with him in St. Gilgen, a village in Austria about 29 km. east of the Mozart family home in Salzburg. Sonnenburg was twice a widower and had five children from his two previous marriages, whom Marianne helped raise. She also bore three children of her own: Leopold Alois Pantaleon (1785–1840), Jeanette (1789–1805) and Maria Babette (1790–1791).

Leopold's raising of her son

An unusual episode in Marianne's life occurred when she gave birth (27 July 1785) to her first child, a son who was named Leopold after his grandfather. Marianne had traveled from her home in St. Gilgen to Salzburg for the birth. When she returned to St. Gilgen, she left her infant in the care of her father and his servants. The elder Leopold stated (by a letter that preceded Marianne back to St. Gilgen) that he would prefer to raise the child for the first few months himself. In 1786 he extended the arrangement to an indefinite term. Leopold continued to care for his grandson, taking delight in his progress (toilet training, speech, and so on), and commencing with the very beginnings of musical training. Marianne saw her son on occasional visits, but in general was not involved in his care. The arrangement continued until the death of Marianne's father, Leopold, on the 28th of May, 1787.

Biographers differ on what was the basis for this arrangement. Little Leopold was ill in his infancy, and perhaps needed to be kept in Salzburg for this reason, but this does not explain why he was still kept there after his recovery. Another possibility attributes the arrangement to Marianne's delicate health or her need to take care of her stepchildren. Biographer Maynard Solomon attributes the arrangement to Leopold's wish to revive his skills in training a musical genius, as he had done with Wolfgang. He also suggests that the giving up her son was indicative of Marianne's total subordination to her father's wishes.

Relationship with Wolfgang

When Mozart was a toddler, Nannerl was his idol. Maynard Solomon writes, "at three, Mozart was inspired to study music by observing his father's instruction of Marianne; he wanted to be like her." The two children were very close, and they invented a secret language and an imaginary "Kingdom of Back" of which they were king and queen. Mozart's early correspondence with Marianne is affectionate, and includes some of the scatological and sexual word play in which Mozart indulged with intimates. Occasionally Wolfgang wrote entries in Marianne's diary, referring to himself in the third person.

Wolfgang died 5 December 1791. Sometime around 1800, Marianne encountered Franz Xaver Niemetschek's 1798 Mozart biography. Since this biography had been written from the perspective of Vienna and of Constanze, much of its content was new to Marianne. In an 1800 letter she wrote:

Herr Prof. Niemetschek's biography so completely reanimated my sisterly feelings toward my so ardently beloved brother that I was often dissolved in tears, since it is only now that I became acquainted with the sad condition in which my brother found himself.

Later years

Marianne's husband died in 1801. She returned to Salzburg, and worked as a music teacher.

In her old age, Marianne had her first encounter in person with Mozart's widow Constanze since the unhappy visit of 1783. In 1820, Constanze and her second husband Georg Nikolaus von Nissen moved to Salzburg. Although Marianne had not even known that Constanze was still alive,

In 1821 Marianne enjoyed a visit from Wolfgang's son Franz Xaver Mozart, whom she had never met during her brother's lifetime. The son had come from his home in Lemberg to conduct a performance of his father's Requiem in remembrance of the recently-deceased Nissen.

In her last years Marianne's health declined, and she became blind in 1825. Mary Novello, visiting in 1829, recorded her impression that Mrs. Berchtold was "blind, languid, exhausted, feeble and nearly speechless," as well as lonely. She mistakenly took Marianne to be impoverished, though in fact she left a large estate (7837 gulden). The popular young adult author Carolyn Meyer wrote of Nannerl's life in her novel In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story. Nancy Moser wrote Mozart's Sister: A Novel. Mozart’s Sister, a novel by Alison Bauld, follows Nannerl Mozart's life through marriage, children, widowhood and death in conversations with her nephew Franz Xaver, Mozart’s younger son. In La sorella di Mozart, a novel by Rita Charbonnier, Nannerl initally tells her life's story through a series of fictional letters to the Major Franz Armand d'Ippold, grows frustrated and debilitated by her father's refusal to acknowledge her ability to compose music and eventually devotes her life to the promotion and study of her brother's music.

Notes

References

Works of biography

Works of literature with Maria Anna Mozart as a main character

*Bauld has also published a fictional diary as Nannerl Mozart in the form of Nannerls' blog.

Originally published in Italy as:

External links

Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart at the Mozart Project

Category:Mozart's relatives Category:Austrian classical pianists Category:German classical pianists Category:Harpsichordists Category:People from Salzburg Category:Austrian people of German descent Category:1751 births Category:1829 deaths Category:18th-century Austrian people Category:Blind people

Salomé Stévenin was born on 29 January 1985 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France. She began her acting career at the age of 3 when she appeared alongside her father in the film Peaux des Vaches ("Thick Skinned") in 1989. More recent appearances include the 2002 television film Clara cet été là (Clara's Summer) and Douches froides (Cold Showers) in 2005 for which she won the La Ciotat Film Festival best actress award.

References

External links

IMDb entry

allocine entry

5 interview with Salomé Stévenin on her role in Douches froides

Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:People from Lons-le-Saunier Category:French actors

Name	Claude Jade
Birth name	Claude Marcelle Jorré
Caption	Claude Jade in Domicile conjugal (1970)
Birth date	October 08, 1948
Birth place	Dijon, France
Death date	December 01, 2006
Death place	Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Spouse	Bernard Coste (1972–2006)
Years active	1967–2006
Occupation	Actress

Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside of France included the Soviet Union, the United States, Italy and Japan.

Early career

The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at Dijon's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where in 1964 she won a best actress prize for her portrayal of Agnès in Molière's L'école des femmes. In 1966 she won the Prix de Comédie for Jean Giraudoux's Ondine, performed at the Comédie Boulogne. She moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and began acting in television productions, including the TV series Les oiseaux rares.

Films with François Truffaut

While performing as Frida in Pirandello's Henri IV, in a production by Sacha Pitoëff at the Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by New Wave film director François Truffaut. He was "completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her joie de vivre", and engaged in other amusing scenes with him. The American critic Pauline Kael wrote that Jade "seems a less ethereal, more practical Catherine Deneuve." Playing the same character, Jade appeared in two more movies by Truffaut, Bed and Board (1970), Love on the Run (1979). In Bed and Board her role becomes both comic and sad. Mindful that Antoine is having an affair with a Japanese beauty, Christine decks herself out as a faux Madame Butterfly to greet him one evening in their apartment.

The late 1960s in film

Jade starred in Alfred Hitchcock's late film Topaz (1969), as Michèle Picard, a secret agent's anxious daughter, married to a reporter (Michel Subor). Recommended to Hitchcock by Truffaut, she was 19 years old when cast, with Dany Robin playing her mother. Hitchcock said he chose the two actresses to provide glamor, and later quipped, "Claude Jade is a rather quiet young lady, but I wouldn't guarantee [that] about her behavior in a taxi". Jade recounted that they "talked in a Paris hotel about cooking, and I gave him my recipe for soufflé and told him I liked Strangers on a Train, and that was that." Hitchcock also said she resembled his former star Grace Kelly, and in France she was a younger Danielle Darrieux. Some of her scenes were deleted and restored for the director's cut of Topaz in 1999.

Topaz was Jade's only Hollywood film. Universal Pictures offered her a seven-year contract, which she turned down because she preferred to work in French. Director Tony Richardson's film Nijinsky (1970), based on a screenplay by Edward Albee, was canceled in its early stages by producer Albert Broccoli. It had starred Jade as Vaslav Nijinsky's wife, alongside Rudolf Nureyev as Nijinsky and Paul Scofield as his lover Sergei Diaghilev. Truffaut's later Bed and Board contains a reference to Nureyev.

Jade planned to play Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), with Richard Burton, but instead she starred in Édouard Molinaro's My Uncle Benjamin (Mon oncle Benjamin, 1969). Geneviève Bujold replaced her as Anne.

Jade's career continued in Belgium, where she played a young English teacher who is fatally intrigued by a murderer in the 1969 film The Witness.

The 1970s in film

Critic Vincent Canby praised her in work in Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass (Le bateau sur l'herbe, 1971), as "adorable acting... [which] brings the right mixture of conventionalism and self-interest into her role". She starred as the daughter of Annie Girardot and Jean Rochefort in Hearth Fires (Les feux de la chandeleur, 1972); and with Robert Hossein in Forbidden Priests (Prêtres interdits, 1973). In Home Sweet Home (1973), she played a hardened nurse who is changed by a love affair with a social worker (Jacques Perrin). She played a dual role in The Choice (Le choix, 1976). She starred in the Italian films Number One (1973), La ragazza di via Condotti (1973), and A Spiral of Mist (Una spirale di nebbia, 1977). She played a nun in Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord (1976), by Japanese director Kei Kumai. Among other films of the 1970s were The Pawn (Le pion, 1978).

The 1980s in film and TV

In the 1980s Jade moved to Moscow for three years with her husband Bernard Coste, a French diplomat, and her son Pierre Coste (born in 1976). She starred in two Soviet films. In Teheran 43 (1981) she played a mysterious terrorist, with Alain Delon and an international cast.

On 1 December 2006, Jade died of eye cancer, which had spread to liver cancer. She wore a prostetic eye in her last stage performance, Celimene and the Cardinal, in August 2006. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Awards

Jade won an award in 1970 for "Révelation de la Nuit du cinéma", and in 1975 she received the at the Cannes Film Festival. Her contributions to French culture were recognised in 1998, when was named a knight in the Légion d'honneur. In 2000 she won the New Wave Award at West Palm Beach International Film Festival for her "trend-setting role in the world cinema", followed in 2002 by the Prix Réconnaissance des Cinéphiles in Puget-Théniers.

Selected filmography

Groupe Flag: Le secret (2005) (TV)

La Crim': Le secret (2004) (TV)

À San Remo (2004)

Drug Scenes (Scénarios sur la drogue, episode "La rampe", 2000)

Tide of Life (TV series, 1998–2000)

Memoire perudue (1998) (TV)

The Raft of the Medusa ('Le Radeau de la Méduse'', 1998)

Un enfant au soleil (1997) (TV)

Porté disparu (1995) (TV)

Bonsoir (1994)

Eugénie Grandet (1994)

La tête en l'air (1993) (TV series)

Honor Roll (1992)

Le bonheur des autres (1990)

The Hitchhiker, TV series, episode "Windows" (1990)

Fleur bleue (1990) (TV series)

Le grand secret (1989) (TV series)

The Man Who Wasn't There (L'homme qui n'était pas là, 1987)

Voglia di volare (1984) (TV series)

A Girl in the Sunflowers (Une petite fille dans les tournesols, 1984)

Rendezvous in Paris (1983)

Lise and Laura (1982)

A Captain's Honor (1982)

Schools Falling Apart, (Le Bahut va craquer, 1981)

Lenin in Paris (1980)

Teheran 43 (1980)

The Island of Thirty Coffins (or Coffin Island, originally L'île aux trente cercueils, TV mini-series, 1979)

Love on the Run (L'amour en fuite, 1979)

The Pawn (Le Pion, 1978)

La passion de Lucile Desmoulins (1978, TV)

A Spiral of Mist (Una spirale di nebbia, 1977)

Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord (1976)

Le Collectionneur des cerveaux (1975)

Malicious Pleasure (1975)

The Choice (Le Choix, 1975)

Too Much is Too Much (1974)

La ragazza di via Condotti (Special Killers, 1974)

Forbidden Priests (1973)

Number One (1973)

Home Sweet Home (1973)

Hearth Fires (Les Feux de la Chandeleur, 1972)

Shéhérazade (1971, TV)

The Boat on the Grass ('Le Bateau sur l'herbe'', 1971)

Bed and Board (Domicile conjugal, 1970)

Topaz (1969)

My Uncle Benjamin (Mon oncle Benjamin, 1969)

The Witness (or A Change of Heart, originally Le Témoin, 1969)

The Return of Monte Cristo (or Under the Sign of Monte-Cristo, originally Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo, 1968)

Stolen Kisses (''Baisers Volés, 1968)

References

External links

Claude Jade at Films de France

Claude Jade at DvdToile

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