The actor and screenwriter Jean-Pierre Bacri died Monday of cancer at the age of 69, said his agent Anne Alvares-Correa. 

The man, a figure of French theater and cinema, occupied a prominent place with the public for his roles of grieving and disillusioned but deeply human anti-heroes.

He had written several plays and films with Agnès Jaoui, who was also his companion.

Jean-Pierre Bacri has been awarded five times at the César, where he received four times the trophy for best screenplay with Agnès Jaoui, for

Smoking / No Smoking

,

Un air de famille

,

We know the song

and

Le Goût des autres

, and a times Best Supporting Actor for

We Know the Song

.

The actor and author confided a few years ago that he did not like heroes.

I “do not believe in types that sparkle with happiness”: “tracking down experience, sobriety, modesty”, “refusing cheating” were for him a profession of faith.

Back in pictures on the career of the favorite grumpy of French cinema. 


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Olivier JUSZCZAK

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