“Sophie Marceau, why we love her so much”, a special issue of Paris Match

By Patrick Mahé, Managing Editor

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Discover our special issue “Sophie Marceau, why we love her so much”, 100 pages of photos and exclusive reports devoted to the favorite woman of the French, on sale from Thursday June 30 at your newsagent.

Eternal teenager and free woman

Suddenly, Sophie Marceau rises to the top of the Top 50 of the favorite personalities of the French. We are then in 2019, five years after his last major role, in “A meeting” by Lisa Azuelos. It’s a small twist in the entertainment world, because, at 53, his career is on stand-by. The actress inaugurated the first joint ranking of this great blow of “zoom” on the women and men of the year, carried out by Ifop for the “JDD”. From the launch of this new wave survey, it therefore took first place. Like JeanJacques Goldman, on the men’s side, she proved to be unbeatable, already winning three consecutive Top 50s. In short, gold Tops!

What is the stainless affection of the French for her? Out of 1003 people consulted, men and women, young and old, voters on the left, right or center spontaneously place her on the podium. Proof that forty years after “La boum”, the good-natured comedy by Claude Pinoteau and Danièle Thompson featuring the first love affairs of a teenager, Sophie Marceau has remained, for many, little Vic. In 1995, she placed 14th in a ranking then mainly dominated by men (9 out of the top 10). Since then, she has steadily climbed the ladder. The French saw her grow up or grew up with her.

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Paris Match has accompanied its rise. Just dive into our archives – a memorial of 14 million images – to unfold his career… and select our sequences. Photographer Elsa Trillat, accomplice from the early days, but also Jack Garofalo, Jean-Claude Deutsch and Benoit Gysembergh have captured slices of life in each era, sometimes emphasizing her youthful insolence, sometimes her assumed freedom as a woman. Sophie Marceau made her first cover at 17, like a certain Brigitte Bardot, baptized in her time “the little fiancée of Paris Match”. She will do it again for the 70th anniversary collector’s issue of our magazine. Bewitched, the novelist David Foenkinos, will qualify her as “dream woman”.

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From one generation to another, it still makes our hearts beat. His life in Poland, with the filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski, pygmalion and great love, was also a springboard for Hollywood. In “Braveheart”, she takes on the role of Princess Isabelle who will seduce Mel Gibson, the interpreter of William Wallace, hero of Scottish independence. She will then become a James Bond girl. Then, focused on her family life (with her children, Vincent and Juliette), she took the time to campaign for causes close to her heart: granting the dreams of sick children with the Arc-en-ciel association, support animal protection. Actress and director, the “boumeuse” of the tender years is revered as far as Asia. In China, when she sings “La vie en rose”, an audience of luminaries see in her the reincarnation of a goddess…

She shakes up her image, without ever betraying her naturalness. Mischievous smile, mischievous glances, schoolboy grimaces (she loves sticking out her tongue) make photographers happy. So they ritually reserve a friendly guard of honor for him in Cannes. No question, in its passage, to put the device under the red carpet. Many “long-faced” actors would have lessons to learn.

“Sophie Marceau, why we love her so much”, a special issue of Paris Match

Our special edition “Sophie Marceau, why we love her so much” is on sale from Thursday June 30 at your newsagent.

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In the summary of our special issue “Sophie Marceau, why we love her so much”, 100 pages of photos and exclusive reports devoted to the favorite woman of the French…

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“Sophie Marceau, why we love her so much”, a special issue of Paris Match


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