Stéphanie Renouvin devotes her first film to her maternal grandmother, Micheline Roquebrune, 93, whose legendary interpreter of James Bond was the third husband, forty-five years.
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“What a idiot!” The woman who has just insulted a motorist has her outspokenness. Despite this exhubference, Micheline, painter, widow of Sean Connery, remains unknown to the general public, while she was his wife for forty-five years-from 1975 to the death of the actor, October 31, 2020.
has his arm, his granddaughter, Stéphanie Renouvin, ex-presenter of newspapers (Canal+, I-Télé), journalist and producer. After five years of walks, interviews and confidences, she devotes her first documentary to her grandmother, broadcast in “1:15 pm”, by Laurent Delahousse. A real discovery.
At 93, Micheline Roquebrune, nicknamed “Moucha”, looks like a young octogenarian. Her voice is assured, like her memories, her bilingual and unbridled vocabulary, to tell the first time she saw Sean, from back, dressed in a chill, on a golf course, in Morocco, in March 1970. She Then ignored that he was already in his fifth James Bond. But she did not forget anything about their first meeting or their first night of love and its “smell of flint”.
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“A free woman ahead of her time,” said Stéphanie Renouvin. Much more than that, according to Chapter 2 devoted to Micheline before Sean. This episode is interested in the girl born in a French family in Tunisia, married for the first time at 20 to a Centralian she does not like, before moving to Casablanca. There will be born Marie-Christine, then Olivier, then a third child who dies at three days. At 27, this woman will then decide to live at all costs, even if it means hurting around her, a time.