Her other film roles include Beyond Silence (1996), La Vie en Rose (2007), and French Women (2014).
In 1997 she had great success in Germany with Caroline Link's Jenseits der Stille for which she learned German, sign language, and the clarinet.
The story concerned a young servant woman found guilty of the murder, with her sister's help, of her employer's wife and daughter; it had made sensational headlines in France in 1933.
[citation needed] In 2003, she published the autobiographical book Il n'y a pas beaucoup d'étoiles ce soir, with anecdotes of her day-to-day life as an actress.
She starred in 2007's two-time Academy Award-winning film La Vie en rose, as Momone, Edith Piaf's best friend.