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Deneuve. “Rendez-Vous,” BAM + LACMA

“It was Truffaut,” noted Laura Barton in a profile for the Guardian last year, “who said she had to be unlocked; that there was in her ‘something that was ready to give but also refused to unbutton.’” Give, though, she has — enough at least to prompt Stephen Holdento ask in the New York Times, “What would French film culture look like without its queen, Catherine Deneuve, steering the ship of state?” The question opens his overview of this year’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance. The series opens tonight with François Ozon’s Potiche, which in turn, opens another series at BAMcinématek, entitled simply Deneuve and running through March 31, and screens midway through LACMA’s series, Beautiful Dreamer: The Early Films of Catherine Deneuve (tomorrow through March 12)…