Simone Signoret, figure libre

An excellent doc about one of the greatest French actresses of all time, the first one to be awarded an AA ("Room at the top")

Her film career began with "bad girls " parts ("Dédée D'Anvers " the extraordinary "casque d'or" and the terrifying film noir " manèges" ) or calculating characters ( "les diaboliques ",known all around the world, remade and imitated ) When she got older ,she was not left in the cold and carried on with Melville 's "l'armée des ombres" and her final triumph "La vie devant soi"

Her political commitment was famous and sometimes went against her ; her career was waning between 1957 and her AA : she was a communist before accompanying her husband Montand in his USSR tour"where the faces told another story "; but she remained an activist ,notably against the Algeria war and all abuses and injustice, championing all the good causes (she tells she received lots of letters which asked her for help in their struggle.)