Editing Catherine Deneuve (section)

=== 1957–1970: Breakthrough and acclaim ===
[[File:Catherine Deneuve 1969-2.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Deneuve in 1969]]
Deneuve made her film debut with a small role in [[André Hunebelle]]'s ''[[Les Collégiennes]]'' (1957) with her younger sister Sylvie Dorléac who, like their older half-sister Daniele, was an occasional child actress.<ref name="filmcomment">{{cite web|title= Catherine Deneuve interviewed by Arnaud Despelchin|publisher= [[Film Comment]] magazine (November/December 2008 edition)|url= http://www.filmcomment.com/article/catherine-deneuve-interviewed-by-arnaud-desplechin|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140116115532/http://www.filmcomment.com/article/catherine-deneuve-interviewed-by-arnaud-desplechin|archive-date= 16 January 2014|df= dmy-all}}</ref> She subsequently appeared in several films for director [[Roger Vadim]] as well as in {{ill|L'Homme à femmes|fr|L'Homme à femmes (film, 1960)|italic=yes}} (1960), which caught the eye of [[Jacques Demy]], who cast Deneuve as Geneviève Emery in his romantic film musical ''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]'' (1964), the film that brought her to stardom.<ref name="filmcomment"/> The film received critical acclaim winning the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[1964 Cannes Film Festival]]. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' praised her performance, writing, "Catherine Deneuve, a winsome-looking type that other directors have forced to act, here is allowed to be herself. She etches a fine portrait of a 16-year-old in love."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/1963/film/reviews/les-parapluies-de-cherbourg-1117793861/|title= Les Parapluies de Cherbourg|website= Variety|date= January 1964|accessdate= January 4, 2024}}</ref> The same year she acted in several films including the anthology film ''[[The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers]]'' in a segment directed by [[Claude Chabrol]] and the comedy ''[[Male Hunt]]'' directed by [[Édouard Molinaro]]. 

In her English-language debut, Deneuve played the cold but erotic persona, for which she would be nicknamed the "ice maiden", in [[Roman Polanski]]'s psychological horror thriller ''[[Repulsion (film)|Repulsion]]'' (1965). For her performance she was nominated for the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress]]. [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote, "Catherine Deneuve's glassy stare of anxiety dominates the movie" comparing her to [[Janet Leigh]] in ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/03/repulsion-review|title= Repulsion movie review|website= The Guardian|date= 3 January 2013|accessdate= January 4, 2024|last1= Bradshaw|first1= Peter}}</ref> In 1966 she starred in the [[Agnès Varda]] fantasy film ''[[Les Créatures]]'' and [[Jean-Paul Rappeneau]]'s ''[[A Matter of Resistance]]''. The following year, she reunited with Demy for another musical ''[[The Young Girls of Rochefort]]'' (1967) acting alongside [[George Chakiris]] and [[Gene Kelly]]. She played a twin to her real-life older sister, Françoise Dorléac (as Solange), in what would be their only film together, Dorléac died in a car accident a few months after the movie opened.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3236-the-young-girls-of-rochefort-not-the-same-old-song-and-dance|title= The Young Girls of Rochefort: Not the Same Old Song and Dance|website= [[Criterion Collection|Criterion]]|accessdate= January 4, 2024}}</ref> That same year she starred in [[Luis Buñuel]]'s psychological erotic drama ''[[Belle de Jour (film)|Belle de Jour]]'' (1967). Deneuve stars as a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class [[prostitute]], while her husband is at work. For her performance, she received a nomination for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]]. Melissa Anderson writing for [[Criterion Collection|Criterion]] declared, "Deneuve's performance in ''Belle de jour'' turned out to be one of her most iconic".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2121-belle-de-jour-tough-love|title= Belle de jour: Tough Love|website= Criterion|accessdate= January 4, 2024}}</ref>

In 1969, Deneuve starred in [[Stuart Rosenberg]]'s American [[romantic comedy]] film ''[[The April Fools]]'', starring opposite [[Jack Lemmon]]. That same year she acted in [[François Truffaut]]'s romantic crime drama ''[[Mississippi Mermaid]]'' acting alongside [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]]. ''[[The New York Times]]'' film critic [[Vincent Canby]] praised the film writing, "As in all of Truffaut's films, love leads only to an uncertain future that, at best, may contain some joy along with the inevitable misery. Truffaut's special talent, however, is for communicating a sense of the value of that joy."<ref name=nytimes>{{cite web|first=Vincent|last=Canby|author-link=Vincent Canby|title=Mississippi Mermaid (1969)|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=11 April 1970|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E01E5D71E39E136A05752C1A9629C946190D6CF|access-date=January 4, 2024}}</ref> She reunited with Buñel for the drama ''[[Tristana (film)|Tristana]]'' (1970) acting alongside [[Fernando Rey]] and [[Franco Nero]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Philip French's Screen Legends, The Observer Review, p.12 |date=1 February 2009 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/01/catherine-deneuve-philip-french-screenlegends |location=London |work=The Guardian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308083920/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/01/catherine-deneuve-philip-french-screenlegends |archive-date=8 March 2016 }}</ref> Her work for Buñuel would be her best known.<ref>{{Cite book | first = Maxine | last = Block |author2=Anna Herthe Rothe |author3=Marjorie Dent Candee |author4=Charles Moritz | publisher=H.W. Wilson Co. | year = 1978 | title = Current Biography Yearbook | page = 98 | isbn = 978-99973-770-2-9| quote = Catherine Deneuve has also&nbsp;... been called the "ice maiden" because of the aloof and enigmatic personality she has glacially portrayed in such classic art films as Polanski's ''Repulsion''&nbsp;...
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Alice|last=Jones|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n18724578|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110073606/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n18724578|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 November 2008|title=Catherine the great: Deneuve's five finest roles|work=The Independent|date=7 March 2007|access-date=10 September 2008|quote = The first and most chilling of Deneuve's classic ice-maiden roles." "Deneuve's best-known role.}}</ref> That same year, she reunited with Jacques Demy for the musical fantasy ''[[Donkey Skin (film)|Donkey Skin]]'' (1970) based on the [[Donkeyskin|1965 fairy tale of the same name]] by [[Charles Perrault]]. [[Roger Ebert]] praised the film writing, "It provides a visual feast and fanciful imaginations, and Deneuve was then, as she was before and since, a great beauty with the confidence such beauty requires."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/donkey-skin-2005|title= Donkey Skin|website= [[Roger Ebert|rogerebert.com]]|accessdate= January 4, 2023}}</ref>