

The sister who burned too bright before the world noticed.
Direction
Zamochnikoff lets the footage breathe, no melodrama needed.
Acting
Dorléac's screen presence—charming, restless, already fading in real time.
Director
Frédéric Zamochnikoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dorléac died in a car crash on the Nice airport road in 1967, just months before *The Young Girls of Rochefort* premiered—the film that should've made her a star.
She was the prettier sister, the wilder sister, the one who did her own stunts. Catherine inherited the career; Françoise inherited the cult.