"He had talent, humor, and he loved my buttocks," reacted former actress Brigitte Bardot in a statement on Monday, after the announcement of the death of Michel Piccoli at 94 years of age following an accident. cerebral. A death occurred on May 12 and announced Monday by the family of the actor. Michel Piccoli had been Brigitte Bardot's partner in Le Mépris , a legendary film by Jean-Luc Godard released in 1963.
The two actors turned in this film one of the mythical scenes of the cinema. At the opening of Le Mépris , Bardot, lying naked on a bed, lists the parts of his body under Piccoli's loving gaze for an unforgettable dialogue, to music by Georges Delerue: "Do you see my behind in the mirror? - Yes. find my buttocks pretty? - Yes, very. "
"The last spray of the New Wave prevailed leaving me alone on the abandoned beach"
"We interpreted the contempt, but shared a great mutual esteem", adds "BB". "The last spray of the New Wave prevailed leaving me alone on the abandoned beach," she concludes, referring to the lyrics to her song La Madrague .
Le Mépris , which will reveal the actor to the general public in 1963, tells of the couple's disintegration, during a filming in Italy on which the character interpreted by Piccoli, a screenwriter, is working.