"See my behind in the mirror? - Yes.
Do you find my buttocks pretty? - Yes very. "
It is one of the cult dialogues in the history of French cinema. Michel Piccoli responds to Brigitte Bardot in the opening scene of Jean-Luc Godart's film, Le Mépris .
"He had talent, humor, and he liked my buttocks," reacted Brigitte Bardot on Monday in a statement sent after the announcement of the death of Michel Piccoli. “We interpreted Le Mépris , but shared a great mutual esteem. "The last spray of the New Wave prevailed leaving me alone on the abandoned beach," concludes the actress.
A bed, a music, a dialogue
Michel Piccoli, whose disappearance on May 12, at the age of 94, was announced on Monday by his family, had been revealed to the general public in 1963 in Le Mépris . In the cult scene, Brigitte Bardot, lying naked on a bed, lists the parts of her body under the loving gaze of Michel Piccoli for an unforgettable dialogue, to music by Georges Delerue.
The film tells of the couple's disintegration, during a shooting in Italy on which the character played by Piccoli, a screenwriter, is working.
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