Shot luminously in black and white, The Last Letter (at Film Forum) consists only of a performer—Catherine Samie, the legendary French stage actress and doyenne of the Comédie-Française—and ...

Catherine Samie (born 3 February 1933) is a French actress and member (sociétaire, doyen) of the Comédie-Française from 1962. On 14 July 2011 she became Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor.

With this beautifully staged, lit, and acted production–a one-woman performance starring French actress Catherine Samie–he also reveals himself as a first-rate theatrical artist.

Catherine Samie's intense, dynamic performance is the centerpiece of Frederick Wiseman's "The Last Letter," a filmed stage drama in which a Russian Jewish doctor, facing death at the hands of ...

Frederick Wiseman’s first fiction film (2002), a one-woman performance by the Comedie Francaise’s skillful and expressive Catherine Samie, is so well made that I can only feel guilty for not ...

In her incredibly moving recitation of the title letter, Catherine Samie — ultra-accomplished doyen of the Comedie-Francaise — stamps her dramatic DNA on a story that some may think they’ve ...

In “The Last Letter,” derived from Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate,” Catherine Samie brings to life the words of a female Russian Jewish doctor writing to her son as her Ukrainian ...

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