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When she left, Madame Claude was forbidden to minors. I remember seeing him secretly in a large cinema on Avenue Bosquet. At the time, we were all crazy about Dayle Haddon, the other star of the film. Coming from Canada, she posed on the cover of all the magazines, Elle, Vogue, etc. I had lined the door of my bedroom with her fashion photos. Gorgeous. And phantasm.
We had already seen her – always in secret – in Spermula, the scandalous film by Charles Matton, released in 1976. The rest of her short film career will go through La Crime de Philippe Labro, surrounded by Brasseur-Brialy-Trintignant, against another Canadian, the blonde Gabrielle Lazure, by Words and Music (Élie Chouraqui) and another film with Jaeckin, forgotten, The last romantic lover. World figure for Age Perfect L'Oreal, today very involved in charity, Dayle Haddon should have been Dale Arden in the Flash Gordon of 1980, replaced overnight by producer Dino de Laurentiis by Melody Anderson, another Canadian , but unknown and who will do nothing with his bad career. Look no further why Flash Gordon farted in flight and flopped, na!
Another historical supermodel played an important role in Madame Claude: the Danish Vibeke Knudsen. Her photo in a YSL tuxedo signed Helmut Newton in 1975 is her. The sequel to the cinema will come down to a small role in The body of my enemy, hostess of the delirious night club Number One held by Belmondo and a panouille in Attention eyes! where another supermodel then unknown was agitated: Grace Jones.
It is said that, so happy with the film, the real Madame Claude will send one of her daughters to Just Jaeckin as a gift. We say a lot of things. Considered a luxury nanar, Madame Claude is not that much, inscribed in an era and an aesthetic. The poster, already: a naked girl in fur curled up in the immense swivel armchair Elda of Joe Colombo, red leather of rigour. We had seen the same, black leather, in Hibernatus. The plot meanders between glossy black lacquers, undulating and silvery wallpapers, smoked glass, bare breasts, marbles, brass, silky cushions, velvet, late pop lighting and contemporary art. Not to mention the sofas strewn with furs and orgy bodies. In the film, Madame Claude lives in Régina, the palace on rue de Rivoli. Her wardrobe is provided by Milanka. That of Dayle Haddon by Renata. Maurice Ronet is dressed by Smalto and Jane Birkin sings Yesterday Yes a Day by Gainsbourg who signed the soundtrack In the end credits, we thank Jean-Charles Brosseau for the hats, La Bagagerie for the bags, J.Yver for the furs and Frangeul for jewelry. It's me, where does it smell like broke production? Still, nanar or not, Madame Claude by Just Jaeckin was recently restored and in July 2018, it appeared on the program of the Cinémathèque Française, screened as part of the Tribute to Françoise Fabian whose filmo aligns classics and masterpieces. Proof that Madame Claude was not so bad.
