The beautiful Catherine Deneuve became famous thanks to the film “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”. The press nicknamed her “a piece of ice in a glass of whiskey” for her cold but magnetic beauty. She played in dozens of love melodramas, but she herself was always afraid of love and ran away from it. A searing romance with Marcello Mastroianni left too many scars on her fragile heart, and Catherine vowed to never allow a man to come so close again. “The best way to keep a man’s love is not to marry him,” she said obstinately. Catherine Deneuve is still rightfully considered the most beautiful actress in France. Francois Ozon, Lars von Trier and other best directors of our time are fighting for the right to work with her. About all the secrets of the personal and creative life of the most unbearable French beauty - in this frank book!