France being the “guest of honor” of the 2009 Taormina Film Fest, the festival was in turn honored by a visit of Catherine Deneuve, one the most prolific French actresses who in her long career has worked and with almost every important European filmmaker in the last thirty years (from Bunuel over Polanski and Truffaut to Lars van Trier). Deneuve was in Taormina presenting her newest film “The Girl on the Train” directed by Andre Techine. At a press conference during the festival, she talks about her role as a French icon, why she has not made many US movies and explains her attitude towards TV work. She describes how Techine fictionalized the actual news story of a seemingly antisemitic event in Paris, but refuses to answer direct questions on anti-Semitism. ter] "The US films that were proposed to me I would not have done even in my own language" What do you think of your role as a symbol for French beauty? At one time, you were chosen to represent the “Marianne”, a nationa...