Rich extracts of shows and movies and archive images, the documentary of Yves Riou dedicated to the English singer and actress is chanted by many interviews.
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Impressive trajectory than that of Julie Andrews, 86 years old. Not later than 2020, the singer and English actress endorsed the “voice” of Lady Whistledown in the Bridgerton series on Netflix. Always dirty, adventurous, the unforgettable Mary Poppins (1964), the equally irresistible heroin of the melody of happiness (1965), has juggled between musicals, movies and shows with an energy and an amazing class.
Cheerful, the documentary realized in 2019 by Yves Riou entitled Julie Andrews, the melody of a life surfs in vive pace on the Russian mountains of an intense course. The child prodigates to the five octaves, who chatted all young with his mother and her father-in-law in the Andrews trio in the most shameful English cabarets, is 13 years old when she sings in front of King George VI. England, in 1948.
Four years later, here she arrives in New York and starts a successful career in Broadway with My Fair Lady. She then stands out in Camelot (1961) with Richard Burton, dancing and whistling as a wonderful pin. Walt Disney sees her and offers Mary Poppins. For this first film, where she discovers the actress job by levifying most of the time hanging on cables, she puts in the mile and wins a Golden Globe, then an Oscar for the role in 1965. She then chained collaborations at the Cinema, with, in particular, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Wise.
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Chronological, rich in multiple extracts of shows and movies, archive images, this shimmering portrait is chanted by many interviews, throughout his life. The one that was adulated from the age of 30 is always sparkling, precise, smiling – with the distance of this mischievous humor exploding on the screen. His turbulent artistic, offensive, goes by ups and downs to culminate again in Victor Victoria (1982), directed by Blake Edwards, in which she performed “a man who claims to be a woman who claims to be a man”. By playing at the bottom of its elastic voicemail. In 1969, she married Edwards, and they will live together until the killer’s death in 2010.
In parallel, it becomes UNICEF ambassador, defends the cause of women in the Third World countries but still composed songs, writes its autobiography, children’s books as well as educational television series for the young audience. In 1989, she is risking in her first One Woman Show that unfolds by singing the stages of her career. She is 60 when she loses her wonderfully perched voice. Diving into the Julie Andrews tornado reveals a moment not only exciting but incredibly happy. Giving illico want to see all your cult films and others too.