- Dominique Laffin, La femme qui pleure (US: The Crying Woman), France, 1978. Which came first, scenario or the reality… Yet another French film about the breakdown of a couple – being, of course, the auteur Jacques Doillon and his editor, Noëlle Boisson (parents of Lola, the 2006 director of Et toi, t’es sur qui?) . Among his earliest casting work, Dominique Besnheard met all, the bright young things of the hour: Anicée Alvina (from Alain Robbe-Grillet’s erotics), ex-child star Brigitte Fossey, Jacqueline Parent, and two others who later became directors: Röuan and Nicole Garcia. Doillon played himself (obviously!) opposite the lovely Laffin… who died far too young, after 19 films, in 1985. Officially, a heart attack (at 33?), although her daughter, French Communist politician Clementine Autain, confirmed it was suicide.
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