1.―Dominique Sanda is an actress who can be now probably rarely seen on the films. She was born in Paris in 1951. She is now 53 years old, and I like her very much. Her real name is Dominique Varaigne. She said, "I like the word which starts with a character S, so I made my stage name Sanda."
In her statement, I can recognize her strong, attractive personality. She became an unmarried mother at 21 years old. Her charismatic beauty impressed the world as "anadventof Greta Garbo in the 1970s" and that impression has ensured her fame. Finally, she has become the international actress.
2.―Around the publish of this photographic record, Sanda was living with her only son Yann, who was 11 years old at that time. I can feel such lifestyle as a free one. I myself gave a birth to a son, and after that, I've got divorced. And after all, I am living with my only son.
I coudn't know why, but before my divorce, the photograph in which Dominique and son was taken was myconsolationto my mind. Perhaps I led meserable lifeforebodingthe breakup.
And now, Dominique's picture also uphold me greatly. I am never an international star or nothing, but now I live with my lovable son. Dominique seems to talk to me, "You are in your right way!"
3.―Recently women do never value a model of "marriage" or "an couple with two chilren" as anabsoluteideal. Rather they wish to find a bigger worh living as "an individual" than to liveprepossessingas "a woman in society", i.e. gender.
Dominique dared to become an unmarried mother, had a work, and brought up a son. The time she was living as a young mother was the 1970s, not the 2000s, which was dominated by the somewhat closed society having an traditional family image. Now again I can see her photograph with her young son, and I am impressed or can be given an encouragement and a teaching from her.
4.―Dominique is also a woman not only with an absolute beauty as an actress but with a tough mind. In this photograph records, a famous editor Colline Bullet interviews her. Miss Bullet had worked for the most popular fashion magazine in the 1980's Marie Claire. At that time, I had read this interview and such words of Dominique was impressed me―"I never be scared of being naked. What scares me most is to make my mind all naked."―
I was strongly shocked and moved by her words. Any woman would be shamed and feel dreadful to be stripped. But she can be stripped with a clear consciousness that she must do so for the staff taking such a scene as a pro actress.
She can possess a strong self and never lose that under any situatiion. So, we can call a woman "a real actress" who are intelligently excellent bothexternally and internally.
5.―In those days, she had a lover who was a director. Her own car is Benz, which is just appropriate for a star. However, she says, "I never wish to be interviewd or takeshootingall around a year. So I love travel very much."
―"I once been to Egypt and saw the Pyramids before dawn. I could felt a gentle breeze. A breeze of the morning desert. The sun rises above the Pyramids and I climbed a sand hill. As I climbed, the Sphinx gradually appeared―that was my first experience to see them. The sight was beyond my imagination. The left side was all sand hills and desert...moreover, I could see so many Pyramids on the desert!
Egypt was the most wonderful place I've ever been to. That is a very beautiful, very mysterious place."―
6.―I canassumethe reason why she is attracted by the Egypt'smysticismis that she herself is also an actress with her own mysticism. Dominique talked about her young son Yann with a deep affection, who was still 11 years old then―
"Yann doesn't like traveling. He can't understand such a beauty as I've impressed in Egypt. But it's natural, for he is still a young child. The children love their homes, and they enjoy playing with their friends. My son is not a lonely child and he loves his fellows. He's very different from me.
But at the same time, he is a child who can bear a loneliness, for he gets used to see me like this."―I myself is also too busy with works at college, and in the weekends, I am too exhausted to take care of my son. But a mind caring me is being grown in his heart. With a support of Dominique's words, I would like to watch my child's growth.(2005.1.24)