I prefer geniuses to morons, unpublished secrets of the late Anemone.

Unpublished confidences of the actress Anémone, who died two years ago, in a book to be published at the end of May.

Story rendered by Laurent Brémond, reporter, cinematographer and documentary maker on social issues. It was by chance that he met Anemone and out of love for the portrait that he collected his unpublished secrets, announces the publisher Laffont.

Is success a guarantee of happiness? By retracing, through her own memories, the fifty years of Anemone’s career, this book reveals the secrets of an actress disappointed by the celebrity, who had chosen to abandon the game of appearances to find herself facing herself.

Her career teaches a double lesson in courage: she turned her back on a privileged environment to risk herself on the paths of the 7th art, then deliberately moved away from the sirens of success. Anemone therefore speaks. Without taboo. The hippie period and the awakening to a political and ecological conscience, the first shootings, the university and May 68, the beginnings in the café-theaters – it is the time of La Veuve Pichard and the Splendid -, the first great roles, Santa Claus of course, the meetings… Then come the years of stardom, which she hates, her relations with the actors, the directors, Le Grand Chemin, the César… Finally, the withdrawal from public life, political positions, rants …

Rich and frank, this story also tells about the illness and the last days of the actress. I prefer geniuses to morons, or the portrait of a woman decidedly an actress since she made the choice to bow out by playing her own role.

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