Romy Schneider: Emotional Intensity In Film

is it TRULY a vid abt romy if it doesnt play the theme to les choses de la vie?

Trigger warnings: 0:45 - woody allen, although i blurred him out as best i could hah
9:04 - domestic abuse, quick and nothing major because i only show the clip before the assault, still involves physical abuse and restraint however
nothing else to point out in the video, some films involving typical 60s/70s sexism and attitudes but no other major triggers as far as i can tell

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Some clarifications and notes:

I decided to make this video for a number of reasons (a large one being that since I found her movies I've been unable to stop talking about and admiring her). It started out as a fairly small idea to compare her acting in Mädchen In Uniform (yeah i kno i messed up the pronunciation oops) to L'Important c'est d'aimer, and evolved pretty quickly as I went in depth with my readings. The more I did and the more reviews I looked up of her I noticed that there was a pattern in many english language retrospectives: she was a beautiful, tragic figure........ and well, not that much else?
Few english reviews actually go in depth about her acting in itself, usually it's that her filmography took a couple of dramatic turns and that she was influenced by tragic events in her life.
I understand reflecting on and examining acting is extremely difficult given how completely and utterly subjective it is, but I hope maybe I've given a little more dedication to the topic of her acting in itself instead of the ubiquitous mythos around her- she was far, far more than a pretty face and a sad story. This notion of her absolute beauty even fed into her depression in later life, and it saddens me a little bit sometimes to see it's still The thing a lot people tend to comment on most. Of course she was beautiful (and always was) it goes without saying, but she was so incredibly knowledgeable and dedicated to her performances as well.

But anyway, performance studies is really fascinating and it was a fun essay for practicing my analytical and archival researching skills.

Unfortunately the video quality isn't great in some areas because many of the films I have of hers are on blu-ray (eh only the best for romy right) and my computer does not have a compatible disc drive for them. This is also the reason why I read out Bertrand Tavernier's retrospective on her as the interview, The Morality of Filmmaking- a superb one if i may add-, was on my blu-ray copy of Death Watch so I was unable to get it off the disc (and i'd never try and use a camcord to film my own tv, heaven FORFEND)

I'd also like to add that for Group Portrait With A Lady she won awards for her acting in it despite it not being otherwise well received!

In my first segment when I discuss "Connection to the Role" I don't intend to make the point that she had a complete investment and personal connection to Every Single Role In Her Filmography but im not sure how clearly that comes across ahah. It was a career she worked incredibly hard on and took great risks for in order to portray roles that accurately reflected her skills.
And to me, for a person to do that, to take the risk of leaving their home country, where they're already a celebrity of monumental scale, to move to an extremely demanding and challenging film industry in another country and speak a whole other language... that means they have a connection/an investment of some sort in most of their roles there to an extent. Add in the societal context/backdrop of the many political and social movements of the time, and her inexorable drive to work and you got... well, the earnest works Romy pulled off.

Emotional investment is a different thing and applies to a much relatively smaller amount of her films, many of them some of her best. Such examples are Death Watch, The Passerby (one i have yet to watch fully because i can't get two minutes in of her on screen with the boy without cryin), The Train, L'important, Mädchen in Uniform and many more. I elected to discuss L'important for that segment because of her own words in describing how she managed to get herself into Nadine's frame of mind. I hope I was careful in my descriptions of this sort of subject, the last thing I'd ever want to do is disrespect her agency and ignore her words on this idea just like the press did many times in her life!

I did my best to ignore speculation and details about her private life cause, boy, that's been dug up FAR too much I was just about greetin at the end of her french wikipedia page. Examination of her personal connections to roles sort of became inevitable but I did my best to put her words first, leave out details of what happened to her and keep all that stuff generally to a minimum.

oh and at 12:33 when I say "previous roles" I mean the ones i'd mentioned in the essay! an error in wording on my part
holy shit though its a video about romy that doesn't reference alain delon what a miracle 😭

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