There is a 91-year-old woman in the south of France whose face might make you do a double prise. It might trigger a memory of one life fulfilled and another truncated. For she is the actress Marisa Pavan, sister of the fêted, flawed and funny Pier Angeli, a star who lived in fear of 40 but never made it that far.
Refracted through the prism of twindom, paths taken and choices made are rarely more starkly contrasted.
It was Pier — she landed on her stage name by splitting her surname
