Romy Schneider. Wien – Berlin – Paris
Devastation
During the second half of the 1970s, Romy Schneider played diverse exploited, abused and humiliated women, who were faced with death either directly or indirectly. In 1975, she was both perpetrator and victim of a murder conspiracy in Claude Chabrol’s psychological thriller LES INNOCENTS AUX MAINS SALES / DIRTY HANDS. In her fourth collaboration with Claude Sautet, MADO in 1976, she embodied a figure that was disillusioned with life and addicted to pills and alcohol, while experiencing similar problems in real life. In 1979, Romy Schneider appeared in Costa-Gavras’ film CLAIR DE FEMME / WOMANLIGHT – as the mourning mother of a daughter who had died in an accident. The role seemed to anticipate the death of her son David in 1980. She also filmed Bertrand Tavernier’s critically received DEATH WATCH in 1979, in which she, terminally ill, became the victim of a sensation-seeking TV channel. In real life, Romy Schneider was constantly pursued by paparazzi. All of her biographers have succumbed to the temptation to draw parallels between reality and fiction in Romy Schneider’s life; in part they forgot the high degree of artistic engagement with which she interpreted her roles, because as her directors have attested, Romy Schneider was first and foremost a professional actress.
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The exhibition
Photo: M. Stefanowski
CLAIR DE FEMME, 1979
LA PASSANTE DU
SANS-SOUCI, 1982
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