“Madame Sean Connery”, on France 2: intimate portrait of Micheline Roquebrune

FRANCE 2 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 AT 1:15 p.m. – DOCUMENTARY SERIES

“What a jerk! » The woman who has just insulted a motorist is outspoken. Despite this exuberance, Micheline, painter, widow of Sean Connery, remains unknown to the general public, while she was his wife for forty-five years – from 1975 to the death of the actor, October 31, 2020.

On his arm, his granddaughter, Stéphanie Renouvin, former newspaper presenter (Canal +, i-Télé), journalist and producer. After five years of walks, interviews and confidences, she devotes her first documentary to her grandmother, broadcast in the ” 1:15 p.m., by Laurent Delahousse. A real discovery.

At 93, Micheline Roquebrune, nicknamed “Moucha”, looks like a young octogenarian. Her voice is assured, like her memories, her bilingual and unbridled vocabulary, to recount the first time she saw Sean, from behind, wearing a wrinkled shirt, on a golf course, in Morocco, in March 1970. She unaware that he was already on his fifth james bond. But she hasn’t forgotten anything about their first meeting or their first night of love and her “smell of flint”.

Intervention of Hassan II

“A free woman ahead of her time”, says Stéphanie Renouvin. Much more than that, according to chapter 2 devoted to Micheline before Sean. This episode focuses on the young girl born into a French family in Tunisia, married for the first time at the age of 20 to a Centralien whom she does not like, before moving to Casablanca. There will be born Marie-Christine, then Olivier, then a third child who dies at three days old. At 27, this woman will then decide to live at all costs, even if it means hurting those around her for a while.

Raised in the straitjacket of the small society of the French of the Maghreb, she perfectly describes the despair of a life without love. It takes a lot of courage and determination, then, to tear oneself away from the screed of convenience imposed by the good society that surrounds it.

Without revealing his whole story, let’s simply point out that a somewhat borderline shrink adept at pentothal will encourage him to discover physical pleasure; that she refers to her second husband (who is not Sean Connery) as “best lover i ever had” ; and that she would certainly not have succeeded in leaving this jealous spouse without the intervention of a certain Hassan II…

Once Sean Connery is also divorced – not without difficulty – their life together will be just as incredible, as evidenced in the following chapters by those who were willing to participate, in particular his eldest daughter, his son Stéphane, born of his second union in 1964, and Jason, the son of Sean Connery and Diane Cilento, born in 1963. Without Moucha, Sean Connery would certainly not have accepted to play in The Incorruptibles Where IndianaJones. But without Sean, what would Moucha have become?