Carole Achache

{{Infobox writer

| name = Carole Achache

| image =

| birth_name = Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Salomon-Lange

| birth_date = {{birth date|1952|5|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|3|1|1952|5|31|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|photographer|actress}}

| spouse = {{marriage|Jean Achache
|2016|end=died}}

| children = Mona Achache

| notable_works =

| genre = {{Cslist|Novel|photography}}

}}

Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Achache{{Cite web |title=Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Achache (Salomon-Lange) |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Carole-Achache/6000000040333451919 |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Geni.com |date=10 September 2022 |archive-date=10 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210110102/https://www.geni.com/people/Carole-Achache/6000000040333451919 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Carole Lange |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=Caro&nom_acteur=LANGE%20Carole&ident=113692&debut=738&record=748&from=ok |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Les gens du cinéma |language=fr |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205032105/http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=Caro&nom_acteur=LANGE%20Carole&ident=113692&debut=738&record=748&from=ok |url-status=live }} (née Salomon-Lange;{{Cite web |title=Avis de décès et d'obsèques de Mme Carole ACHACHE |url=https://www.avis-de-deces.net/avis-de-deces/ile-de-france/paris-75/75014-paris/2016-03-13-achache-carole_tstluAY9d0vs1cGpAjLGZ/ |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Registre des avis de décès et obsèques |language=fr |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205030807/https://www.avis-de-deces.net/avis-de-deces/ile-de-france/paris-75/75014-paris/2016-03-13-achache-carole_tstluAY9d0vs1cGpAjLGZ/ |url-status=live }} 31 May 1952 – 1 March 2016) was a French writer, photographer and actress. She was the daughter of French writer Monique Lange and the mother of French-Moroccan film director Mona Achache. She appeared in films such as The Gypsy (1975), Special Section (1975), Lumière (1976), Mr. Klein (1976), Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977), and Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) under the name Carole Lange. She later worked as a still photographer in the films Other People's Money (1978), A Week's Vacation (1980), The Trout (1982), and Un soir au club (2009). As an author, Achache published five books.

Achache died in Paris on 1 March 2016 at the age of 63. Her death was ruled as suicide by hanging.

Early life

Achache was born in Paris, France on 31 May 1952.{{Cite web |title=Achache, Carole (1952–....) |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14406672c |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |archive-date=22 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122055616/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14406672c |url-status=live }} She was the daughter of French writer Monique Lange{{Cite web |last=Jaggi |first=Maya |date=12 August 2000 |title=Scourge of the new Spain |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/12/internationalwriting.books |website=The Guardian |access-date=15 October 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214044902/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/12/internationalwriting.books |url-status=live }} and of French science historian Jean-Jacques Salomon, who left her mother when Achache was a child.{{Cite web |last=Creutz |first=Norbert |date=14 November 2023 |title="Little Girl Blue", héritage encombrant et vases communicants |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/little-girl-blue-heritage-encombrant-et-vases-communicants |url-access=subscription |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231115142304/https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/little-girl-blue-heritage-encombrant-et-vases-communicants |archive-date=15 November 2023 |access-date=22 November 2023 |website=Le Temps |language=fr}}{{cbignore}} Her mother was born Jewish and later converted to Catholicism.{{Cite web |last=Roy |first=Claude |date=25 February 1972 |title=Une Petite Filée Qui Cherche Dieu |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1972/02/25/une-petite-filee-qui-cherche-dieu_2382451_1819218.html |website=Le Monde |language=fr |access-date=22 October 2023 |archive-date=23 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123042646/https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1972/02/25/une-petite-filee-qui-cherche-dieu_2382451_1819218.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Fillon |first=Alexandre |date=18 December 2011 |title=Elle s'appelait Monique |trans-title=Her name was Monique |url=https://www.sudouest.fr/lot-et-garonne/duras/elle-s-appelait-monique-9846946.php |website=Sud Ouest |language=fr |access-date=22 October 2023 |archive-date=23 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123042653/https://www.sudouest.fr/lot-et-garonne/duras/elle-s-appelait-monique-9846946.php |url-status=live }} Her maternal grandfather, Robert Lange, was a French journalist and politician.{{Cite web |last=Tison |first=Jean-Pierre |date=1 January 1994 |title=Les cahiers déchirés |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/les-cahiers-dechires_798186.html |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231008100032/https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/les-cahiers-dechires_798186.html |archive-date=8 October 2023 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web |title=Robert Lange (1903–1994) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12443548/robert_lange/ |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011234621/https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12443548/robert_lange/ |url-status=live }} American writer William Faulkner was her godfather. Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo was her step-father.{{Cite web |last=Vicente |first=Álex |date=25 May 2023 |title=Marion Cotillard: 'When I see my movies for the first time, I always hate them' |url=https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-25/marion-cotillard-when-i-see-my-movies-for-the-first-time-i-always-hate-them.html |website=El País |archive-date=28 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528182129/https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-25/marion-cotillard-when-i-see-my-movies-for-the-first-time-i-always-hate-them.html |url-status=live}}

When Achache was a child, she was abused by French writer Jean Genet,{{cite web |last=Calhoun |first=Dave |title=Little Girl Blue |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/little-girl-blue-2023 |website=Time Out |date=22 May 2023 |access-date=23 May 2023 |archive-date=23 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523035129/https://www.timeout.com/movies/little-girl-blue-2023 |url-status=live }} who was a friend of her mother. The abuse led her to drug use and prostitution between Paris and New York in the 1970s.{{Cite news |last=Rouden |first=Céline |date=14 November 2023 |title="Little Girl Blue" de Mona Achache, généalogie de la violence |trans-title="Little Girl Blue" by Mona Achache, genealogy of violence |url=https://www.la-croix.com/culture/Little-Girl-Blue-Mona-Achache-genealogie-violence-2023-11-14-1201290760 |website=La Croix |language=fr |access-date=27 November 2023 |archive-date=20 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120122616/https://www.la-croix.com/culture/Little-Girl-Blue-Mona-Achache-genealogie-violence-2023-11-14-1201290760 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Little Girl Blue (2023) |url=https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100004269 |access-date=27 November 2023 |website=AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center |archive-date=30 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130203826/https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100004269 |url-status=live }}

Career

= Film and Television =

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Achache worked as an actress under the name Carole Lange in films such as Guy Gilles's Earth Light (1970),{{Cite web |title=Carole Lange |url=https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/379433/carole-lange |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Unifrance |archive-date=23 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323001139/http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/379433/carole-lange |url-status=live }} José Giovanni's The Gypsy (1975), Costa-Gavras's Special Section (1975), Jeanne Moreau's Lumière (1976), Joseph Losey's Mr. Klein (1976), Claude Sautet's Mado (1976),{{Cite web |title=Mado (Claude Sautet, 1976) |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/51130.html |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Cinémathèque Française |language=fr |archive-date=7 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607022801/https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/51130.html |url-status=live }} Yves Boisset's Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977), Jacques Rouffio's Violette & François (1977), Georges Lautner's Death of a Corrupt Man (1977), and Laurent Heynemann's The Bit Between the Teeth (1979).{{Cite web |title=Le Mors aux dents (Laurent Heynemann, 1979) |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/49188.html |access-date=22 November 2023 |website=Cinémathèque Française |language=fr |archive-date=22 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122224223/https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/49188.html |url-status=live }} And on the television series {{lang|fr|Le tourbillon des jours}} (1979), and {{lang|fr|Les 400 coups de Virginie}} (1980).{{Cite web |title=Les quatre cents Coups de Virginie 1979–1980 |url=https://madelen.ina.fr/serie/les-quatre-cents-coups-de-virginie-2607 |website=Madelen |language=fr |access-date=15 October 2023 |archive-date=8 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608024509/https://madelen.ina.fr/serie/les-quatre-cents-coups-de-virginie-2607 |url-status=live }}

She also worked as a still photographer in films such as Other People's Money (1978) by Christian de Chalonge,{{Cite web |title=L'Argent des autres (Christian de Chalonge, 1978) |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/47475.html |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Cinémathèque Française |language=fr |archive-date=24 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324220128/https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/47475.html |url-status=live }} A Week's Vacation (1980) by Bertrand Tavernier,{{Cite web |title=Une semaine de vacances (Bertrand Tavernier, 1980) |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/51402.html |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Cinémathèque Française |language=fr |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205030717/https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/51402.html |url-status=live }} The Trout (1982) by Joseph Losey,{{Cite web |title=La Truite (Joseph Losey, 1982) |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/49944.html |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Cinémathèque Française |language=fr |archive-date=2 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602124116/https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/49944.html |url-status=live }} and Un soir au club (2009) by Jean Achache.{{Cite web |title=Carole Achache |url=https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/360397/carole-achache |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Unifrance |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205030716/https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/360397/carole-achache |url-status=live }}

= Books =

In 2002, Achache published her first novel, {{lang|fr|L'Indienne de Cortés}} (English: Cortés' Indian Woman), about La Malinche, a Nahua woman who accompanied Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés throughout his conquest of the Aztec Empire and later became his mistress.{{Cite web |title=L'indienne de Cortés, roman de Carole Achache |url=https://www.hisler.fr/livre/537486-l-indienne-de-cortes-roman-carole-achache-robert-laffont |access-date=27 November 2023 |website=Hisler |language=fr |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205032131/https://www.hisler.fr/livre/537486-l-indienne-de-cortes-roman-carole-achache-robert-laffont |url-status=live }}

Her second novel, {{lang|fr|La plage de Trouville}} (English: Trouville Beach), was published in 2008 and follows the story of the painting of the same name by Jacques Mauny, which belonged to Achache's family and was stolen by the Nazis around 1943.{{Cite web |last=Cachon |first=Sophie |date=7 March 2009 |title=La plage disparue |url=https://www.telerama.fr/scenes/dernier-proprietaire-connu,40102.php |website=Télérama |language=fr |access-date=22 October 2023 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327234728/https://www.telerama.fr/scenes/dernier-proprietaire-connu,40102.php |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=18 May 2008 |title=Femmes seules sur la plage de Trouville |url=https://www.lejdd.fr/Chroniques/Femmes-seules-sur-la-plage-de-Trouville-93014-3303542 |website=Le Journal du Dimanche |language=fr |access-date=27 November 2023 |archive-date=2 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802013227/https://www.lejdd.fr/Chroniques/Femmes-seules-sur-la-plage-de-Trouville-93014-3303542 |url-status=live }}

In 2011, Achache published {{lang|fr|Fille de}} (English: Daughter of), about her relationship with her mother.{{Cite web |last=de Ceccatty |first=René |date=17 November 2011 |title="Fille de", de Carole Achache : Monique Lange sans chichis |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/11/17/fille-de-de-carole-achache_1604890_3260.html |website=Le Monde |language=fr |access-date=15 October 2023 |archive-date=10 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210105820/https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/11/17/fille-de-de-carole-achache_1604890_3260.html |url-status=live }}

Achache also published two photography books, {{lang|fr|Chantiers en cours}} (English: Work in Progress) in 2004,{{Cite web |title=Carole Achache |url=https://www.editions-stock.fr/auteurs/carole-achache |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=Stock |language=fr |archive-date=29 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329135129/https://www.editions-stock.fr/auteurs/carole-achache |url-status=live }} and {{lang|fr|Des fleurs}} (English: Flowers) in 2006.

Personal life

Achache was married to French director and screenwriter Jean Achache, with whom she had two children, a son{{Cite web |date=30 May 2024 |title=Docufy: Mona Achache on 'Little Girl Blue' |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWs8aa0Pfcg&t=154s |publisher=Unifrance |via=YouTube}} and a daughter, film director Mona Achache, born on 18 March 1981.{{Cite web |last=Lacuve |first=Jean-Luc |date=25 November 2023 |title=Little Girl Blue de Mona Achache |url=https://www.cineclubdecaen.com/realisateur/achache/littlegirlblue.htm |website=Ciné-club de Caen |language=fr |access-date=1 December 2023 |archive-date=25 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125222843/https://www.cineclubdecaen.com/realisateur/achache/littlegirlblue.htm |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Mona Achache |url=https://www.premiere.fr/Star/Mona-Achache |access-date=1 December 2023 |website=Première |date=18 March 1981 |language=fr |archive-date=4 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204153704/https://www.premiere.fr/Star/Mona-Achache |url-status=live}}

Death

Achache died in Paris on 1 March 2016 at the age of 63. Her death was ruled as suicide by hanging.{{Cite web |last=Hunter |first=Allan |date=21 May 2023 |title='Little Girl Blue': Cannes Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/little-girl-blue-cannes-review/5182211.article |website=Screen Daily |access-date=22 May 2023 |archive-date=22 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522023028/https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/little-girl-blue-cannes-review/5182211.article |url-status=live}}

In popular culture

In 2023, Achache was portrayed by French actress Marion Cotillard in the biographical docudrama Little Girl Blue, directed by her daughter, Mona Achache.{{Cite web |last=Goldszal |first=Clémentine |date=11 November 2023 |title=Avec "Little Girl Blue", la cinéaste Mona Achache affronte les fantômes de son histoire |trans-title=With "Little Girl Blue", filmmaker Mona Achache confronts the ghosts of her story |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2023/11/11/avec-little-girl-blue-la-cineaste-mona-achache-affronte-les-fantomes-de-son-histoire_6199549_4500055.html |website=Le Monde |language=fr |access-date=27 November 2023 |archive-date=28 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128074929/https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2023/11/11/avec-little-girl-blue-la-cineaste-mona-achache-affronte-les-fantomes-de-son-histoire_6199549_4500055.html |url-status=live }}

Bibliography

= Novels =

{{lang|fr|L'Indienne de Cortés}} (2002)
{{lang|fr|La plage de Trouville}} (2008)
{{lang|fr|Fille de}} (2011)

= Photography =

{{lang|fr|Chantiers en cours}} (2004)
{{lang|fr|Des fleurs}} (2006)

Filmography

= Actress =

==Feature films==

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1970 ! scope="row" \| Earth Light \| Jeanne \| rowspan=10\|as Carole Lange{{Cite web \|title=Carole Lange \|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba8fdd1a7 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528015819/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba8fdd1a7 \|archive-date=28 May 2018 \|access-date=15 October 2023 \|website=British Film Institute}}
rowspan=2\|1975 ! scope="row" \| The Gypsy \|
scope="row" \| Special Section \|
rowspan=3\|1976 ! scope="row" \| Lumière \| Carole
scope="row" \| Mr. Klein \|
scope="row" \| Mado \|
rowspan=3\|1977 ! scope="row" \| Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff \| Cathy Davoust
scope="row" \| Violette & François \|
scope="row" \| Death of a Corrupt Man \| The locker room girl
1979 ! scope="row" \|The Bit Between the Teeth \| The employee Chazerand

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1970

! scope="row" | Earth Light

| Jeanne

| rowspan=10|as Carole Lange{{Cite web |title=Carole Lange |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba8fdd1a7 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528015819/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba8fdd1a7 |archive-date=28 May 2018 |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=British Film Institute}}

rowspan=2|1975

! scope="row" | The Gypsy

scope="row" | Special Section

rowspan=3|1976

! scope="row" | Lumière

| Carole

scope="row" | Mr. Klein

scope="row" | Mado

rowspan=3|1977

! scope="row" | Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff

| Cathy Davoust

scope="row" | Violette & François