Jean-Pierre Mocky died Thursday in Paris. In addition to his work, prolific but uneven, the filmmaker has built his reputation through innumerable rants, on filming as on television.

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Between creaky comedies, satires of contemporary manners and polars, he was a master in the art of derision. The filmmaker Jean-Pierre Mocky died at the age of 86, his son announced on Thursday ( his date of birth was changed on the registers of civil status in 1942, at the time of deportation, passing from 1933 to 1929, ed .) This anar loudly was also known for its black anger, both on movie sets and TV shows.

On the set of the candid Madame Duff, in Cherbourg

His most famous joke was undoubtedly in 2000. The team of the documentary show Strip-tease then follows Jean-Pierre Mocky on the set of the film The candid Madame Duff , in Cherbourg. His quarrels with Dick Rivers and a technical team that takes the water quickly become cult, so much so that his punchlines have even been listed on a site to listen to them, between his "MOTOR" repeated at will and his "Camefleeeeeeeeex" "passed on to posterity.

"I get off the sound, I do not speak, asshole!"

Another sequence, shot by Telematin in 2009 on the set of short film La Cadillac , with Arielle Dombasle and Frédéric Diefenthal, allows to realize the atmosphere that prevails during the filming of the director. With, again, a few pieces chosen: "I get off the sound, I do not speak, jerk!", Or "the assholes go away, that is to say everyone leaves". But the actors do not seem to complain. "It's part of the folklore," admits Frederic Diefenthal at the microphone of France 2. "It seems abrupt when you do not know or is just a spectator, but it's only kindness."

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A clash with Father Laguérie

In his long filmography, Jean-Pierre Mocky attacked, armed with his personal causticity, financial shenanigans ( Shh! ), The absurdities of the judicial system ( The witness ), the administration ( The companions of the Marguerite ), under politics ( One night in the National Assembly , Trap à cons ), on stultifying television ( The big laundry ), to the press ( A shroud has no pockets ), to sports fanaticism ( To dead the referee! ), the widespread corruption ( Is there a Frenchman in the room? ) or the religious business ( The miracle worker ). One of his most famous flights was besides the abbot Laguérie, in 1998 on the plateau From one world to another .

Aymeric Caron, "a little worm"

The filmmaker has always had a conflictual relationship with television and the media. Invited to We are not lying in 2013, he had not hesitated to attack the two chroniclers Laurent Ruquier, Natacha Polony and Aymeric Caron, before they really have time to give their review of his movie The Yellow Fox . But it's probably Aymeric Caron who took the most for his rank, especially with this attack: "You're nothing sir, you're a little worm."

Against the critic Serge Kaganski

In ONPC , Mocky summed up without hesitation : "I shit on critics and critics shit on me". This tirade is reminiscent of his quarrel in 2001 with the critic Serge Kaganski, in the program On aura tout lu !. "I, Kaganski, I do not care, he has to shit in front of the halls, if there are people coming in, what do you want it to do to me?", He had thundered , in his characteristic style, but always with the joker's eye.