Marika Green, actress of “Pickpocket”, participates in the special exhibition of the classic by Robert Bresson
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The French actress Marika Green participates in the special exhibition of the film Pickpocket, by Robert Bresson – the first film of her carrier – in the 29th BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival. The film will be exhibited next Monday (10/31), 8:00 pm, at Espaço Unibanco. On Tuesday, (11/1), 5:00 pm, the actress will participate in the meeting “Remembering Bresson”, at Clube da Mostra – Cine Bombril Hall (2073, Paulista Avenue)
Marika Green visits São Paulo for the first time. She has been in Brazil, but in Rio de Janeiro, in 1965 – for a session of fashion pictures, for the French magazine Marie Claire, and stayed for three weeks to enjoy the Carnival. An experience which she describes as “fantastic”.
Marika comes from a family of actors. Her younger brother, Walter Green, worked in another film by Robert Bresson, Au Hasard, Balthazar (1966), and he is the father of the young actress Eva Green, the leading actress of The Dreamers, by Bernardo Bertolucci, exhibited in the 28th Film Festival.
In Pickpocket, Marika plays Jeanne, a young woman who symbolizes the “good” in the life of the pickpocket Michel (Martin Lassale). After this film, the actress continued her carrier in La Fille D’en Face (1968), by Jean-Daniel Simon – in which the filmmaker Roman Polanski was one of the screenwriters – and the famous erotic feature film Emmanuelle (1974), by Just Jaeckin. Under the direction of her husband, the Austrian filmmaker and cinematographer Christian Berger (jury in the 29th Film Festival), Marika worked in the Austrian production Hanna Monster, Liebling (1989), which was selected in the Venice Festival.
In this same film festival, the director Robert Bresson was honored with a special Golden Lion for his works and Marika was invited to collect it. The actress said she often visited Bresson, and that she had a special feeling for the director who changed her life. “Probably, without Bresson I wouldn’t had become an actress. I had no special inclination for that, because I was a ballet dancer at the Paris Opera and all I wanted was to keep dancing”. About her first film, Pickpocket, she says: A first film with such a master will never be forgotten”.
