Euronews Culture sits down with Vanessa Paradis, whose film career is celebrated at this year's Lumière Film Festival. Alongside and , the iconic Vanessa Paradis is one of the Lumiere Film Festival’s guests of honour for this 16th edition. The 51-year-old multidisciplinary artist has done it all.
From shooting to international fame at the age of 14 with her single ‘Joe Le Taxi’, sustaining a successful musical career with critically acclaimed albums like 1988’s ‘M et J’, 2000’s ‘Bliss’ and the stunning ‘Divinidylle’ in 2007, to modelling and a filmography that has seen her collaborating with some of the greatest modern filmmakers like Jean-Claude Brisseau ( ), Patrice Leconte ( , ), Jean-Marc Vallée ( ), and Yann Gonzalez ( ), there isn’t much the French star hasn’t done. Of course, she became known for a while in the world press as the wife of Johnny Depp, but her career trumps any tabloid gossip. She’s won countless prizes for her contributions to music and cinema, and the is celebrating the latter with the screening this year of three of her most beloved films: the aforementioned ( ) and , as well as the hit romcom ( ) by Pascal Chaumeil.
Euronews Culture sat down with Vanessa Paradis to chat about the festival, her desire to one day star in a musical, her fears regarding artificial intelligence, and what the next few years have in store for one of France’s most beloved performers. It’s obviously very flattering and moving. Before I came.