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Her life was the basis of the feature film Madame Claude (1977), directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Françoise Fabian. Grudet died in Nice on 19 December 2015. In 2021, Netflix released another biographical film based on her life titled Madame Claude.
Most of the film ostensibly takes place in Madame Claude's maisons closes at 18, rue de Marignan, near the Champs-Elysées, and 32, rue de Boulainvilliers, a discrete location in the 16th. A crucial aspect of the film is mostly ignored by the American audience or even by French people who did not live in Paris in the 1960's and 1970's, as I did.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 3, 2021. Jonathon Wilson Ready Steady Cut. The problem with Madame Claude is that it's absolutely interminable as a work of entertainment, stretching ...
Madame Claude: Directed by Sylvie Verheyde. With Karole Rocher, Garance Marillier, Roschdy Zem, Pierre Deladonchamps. Paris, in the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds.
