| Kiefer took this photograph of the French actress Catherine Deneuve in 1969 while he was watching François Truffaut's film "La Sirène du Mississippi" (Mississippi Mermaid). The movie is about a deceitful mail-order bride who comes to America to marry a plantation owner. Kiefer was amused by the idea of portraying Brünnhilde, the typically corpulent, armored heroine of Wagner's opera, as the thin, sexy French movie star. |
