MIREILLE DARC MAKES A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ESCORTING.
To Christophe Koszarek’s demand, JARA PROD, producer of “Médias, le magazine” on France 5, the comedian will dive into the very close world of escorting. Mireille Darc goes to meet people, men, and women, transsexuals who practice it.
Away from poetic images of beautiful women with billionaires, this documentary shows that escorting has largely evolved and is now a solution for everyone. Mothers, students, seniors confide in Mireille through testimonies that helps understand the different faces of escorting.
Synonym of prostitute for some, little job for other, unique way to survive or even a real enjoyment, it appears in the movie that it exists as many definition of escorting as there are people practicing it. Each of them justifying their own arguments: humans or economics. Getting closer to escorts, Mireille Darc takes a look without judging, on this activity in full expansion and wishes to show that escorts are normal citizens, who we know and have a shadow: another life.
This troubled universe, full of charms and paid sex, was already an object of Mireille Darc’s directing.
Indeed, she directed a documentary on the pornographic universe, A life classified X. Her work on escort girls will be her 10th documentary, still on delicate topics.
This new documentary will be broadcast around the end of the year, late in the evening on France 3.
« Red Zone » : provisory title
Diffusion : documentary series “Déshabillez-nous” on France 3
Length: 52’
Director : Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc’s biography
Some star stories are full of accidents, some other are not. Mireille Darc’s journey (born as Mireille Aigroz) looks like a well-deserved success story and helped with invisible helping winds.
Born in Toulon on May 15, 1938 in a family that already counts 2 boys, this daughter of an horticulturist from Switzerland (she discovered in 2007 that he wasn’t her real father, the real one was named Edmond, was a marine on the Amiral-Charner and died in Indochina during the second World War), and of a grocer mother new really early how she wanted to live her life: she wanted to become an actor. She consequently gets into the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of her town, where she wins the Excellency price the year of her bac. In 1959, Mireille Darc comes to Paris to achieve her dream. After only a few monthes of little jobs and some modeling, she gets the main part in La Grande Brétèche of Claude Barma. From 1960, the movie industry likes her, and reveals her to the public in Les Distractions of Jacques Dupont.
As often in those amazing careers, an encounter becomes a lot more important than others: it’s George Lautner who will be her Pygmalion, directing her in 13 movies and making a star out of her. Galia, created in 1965, is the real beginning of her career and glory. Mireille Darc will part in 30 movies during her career. The shooting of La Grande Sauterelle in 1966 will give her her nickname: the grasshopper. Not long after playing for Godard, in 1968, on the shooting of Jeff, of Jean Herman, Mireille Darc meets Alain Delon: they will share 15 years together and will often reunite on screen (l’Homme Pressé, Mort d’un Pourri, Les Seins de Glace, Borsalino), and on TV (Franck Riva in 2003) or on the wood of theaters (Sur la Route de Madison, 2007), even after their divorce.
During the 70’s, Mireille Darc shoots movies on an elevated rhythm, for and with the greatest (Deray, Molinaro, Lautner, Pirès): her participation in both movies of Le Grand Blond with Pierre Richard will turn her into the sexy and popular hero. During the next decade, she takes some time apart the movie industry to dedicate herself to photography, television and theater.
Unfortunately, this beautiful time is not easy and Mireille Darc has to go through some rough years: a really serious car accident, an open-heart surgery, and her separation with Alain Delon… At the end of the 80’s, she goes towards directing (with La Barbare) and the medico-social topics (she signs some documentaries for Envoyé Spécial of Des Racines et des Ailes, for example on organ transplant, prostitutes, people with cancer…) She loses the second love of her life, the writer and journalist, Pierre Barret, who died tragically.
In 1996, she meets the architect Pascal Desprez, who she is married with now. During the following years, Mireille Darc comes back to the screen, becoming a must in the summer sagas: Terre Indigo, le Bleu de l’Océan, les Coeurs Brûlés, les Yeux d’Hélène. In 2005, she becomes a godmother to the association LA Chaîne de l’Espoir, and she gets the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur the next year directly from Jacques Chirac’s hand, president of France. She published her autobiography in 2006 “Tant que battra mon Coeur”.
