“Georgy Girl” (1966). Rampling (right) played Meredith, the girlfriend of Alan Bates (left). “That [film]was very strong. it showed the wildness of women at that time — and that was the way I was — who really wanted to live their own lives. Meredith was able to, in a way. She threw away her baby. That film was very much a film of the 1960s.”
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“The Night Porter” (1974). Rampling played a concentration camp survivor who is reunited with her Nazi guard. “The challenge you take on when you’re very young is that if it’s a strong film, like ‘Night Porter,’ it forges your path. After ‘Night Porter,’ it was never the same.”
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“Stardust Memories” (1980). Rampling was one of Woody Allen’s (left) girlfriends. “That was my finest American film. Woody Allen and I bonded in a fantastic way. You meet people along the way who give you the opportunity to move on creatively. That’s what Woody did in ‘Stardust Memories.’”
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“The Verdict” (1982). Rampling plays Paul Newman’s (right) treacherous girlfriend. “Sidney Lumet was one of the great American directors at that time. That [film]was a sort of masterpiece and a powerful expression of American filmmaking. It wasn’t studio-based; it was New York-based, which is what I liked. There was a kind of independence there.”
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“Under The Sand” (2000). Rampling plays a French woman whose husband vanishes. “The woman in ‘Under The Sand’ is me — [director] Francois Ozon built it around me. The story was about grieving, and I’d had a big process of non-grieving for things that had happened. This film became an opening out into the next part of my life. I was in my 50s, and that sent me on my way again.”
