Christophe Bataille

Charlotte Rampling

"Je m'appelle Tessa Rampling. Charlotte est mon deuxieme prenom mais il m'a saisie. Tessa est devenue Charlotte. Des ma naissance, j'ai connu ce melange un peu trouble de ce qui vient, passe, de ce qui blesse, de ce qu'on ne peut saisir. Les larmes et les rires se melent, nous les enfermons. Chez les Rampling, le coeur est un coffre. Porte par les generations, le secret de famille devient une legende. Nous ne savons que nous taire."Dans ce court recit, Charlotte Rampling se raconte pourtant avec simplicite, justesse, en un denuement poetique. Sa jeunesse, passee entre les garnisons britanniques et la France. Son pere, vainqueur, des jeux Olympiques de Berlin, puis brise dans son elan. Sa mere, "heroine d'un roman de Fitzgerald." Sa soeur, Sarah, disparue trop tot.Charlotte Rampling se livre, se cache, mele les impressions, les souvenirs, les lieux. Elle nous offre ici "le debut d'un commencement. Le debut de ma vie. Qui je suis," composant les multiples facettes d'un visage legendaire, inaccessible, familier."

Qui je suis

A Girl Called Charlie

Wim Wenders

Takeshi Kitano

Steve McQueen

Yohji Yamamoto

Oscar-nominated Charlotte Rampling most recently appeared in hit ITV drama Broadchurch, the BBC’s London Spy and HBO’s Dexter, and the feature film 45 Years. Her career has spanned popular entertainment and arthouse cinema, having starred in English, French and Italian films from 1966’s Georgy Girl (opposite Lynn Redgrave), to films with French director François Ozon, including 2003’s Swimming Pool. Having shied away from biographies and autobiographies (“too personal”) Rampling has now written Who I Am (first published in French) a lyrical, and intimate self-portrait via reminiscences. Highly personal, packed with photographs from her personal archive, Rampling recounts her childhood and youth as the daughter of an army officer (who won a gold medal for the 4 x 400 relay in the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics), and the memories and passions that would inspire her life and later work as an actress. Written in a style that gives a unique insight into her screen persona, it is an idiosyncratic and beguiling insight of one of the most consistently adventurous and interesting actors.

Charlotte Rampling

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