Jean-Pierre Bacri in “Un air de famille”.
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The eternal grumpy of French cinema is gone.
The actor, playwright and screenwriter Jean-Pierre Bacri died on Monday from cancer at the age of 69, his agent Anne Alvares-Correa confirmed to
20 Minutes
.
During his fruitful collaboration with his longtime companion Agnès Jaoui (a slew of successes and awards and two feature films with Alain Resnais), the actor has built an image of a grumpy man with a tender heart through the roles of grieving and disillusioned antiheroes but deeply human.
Through what roles has this image been constructed?
The small strike of "Grand Pardon" in 1982
One of the first times that Jean-Pierre Bacri appears on the small screen, it is alongside Anna Karina in
L'Eblouissement
by Jean-Paul Carrère in 1979. At just 28 years old, he plays Jean-Pierre, a dark seducer.
After appearances at the cinema in
Le Toubib
by Pierre Granier-Deferre and
La Femme integrale by
Claudine Guilmain, it is his performance in
Le Grand Pardon
, a kind of French version of The
Godfather
by Alexandre Arcady, which makes him known to the general public. .
Alongside a Roger Hanin in imperial mafioso, this native of Algeria plays Jacky Azoulay, a small emissary strike from the Bettoun clan, this family of the French Blackfoot Jewish mafia.
Open shirt, gold chain, and all dressed in white ... In 1982, he endorsed all the attributes of a macho blood.
The handler of "L'Été en slope soft" in 1989
At the start of the project, Gérard Krawczyk wrote the role of the handler Fane while thinking of Coluche.
Finally, in the scorching heat of
Summer in a gentle slope
, Jean-Pierre Bacri will take his first role as a soft-hearted moaner, alongside an unlikely Jacques Villeret in the skin of a mild moron, and 'a Pauline Laffont, touching in her role of beautiful brainless.
In this film, his character, tired of hearing his upstairs neighbor beat his partner every night, goes up and down with the beautiful Lilac, whom he begins to love.
Fane, Lilas and Mo, Fane's mentally handicapped brother, will settle in a small house inherited from his mother, in a hostile village in the South-West.
The husband dropped from "Un air de Famille"
In the 1990s, he established himself on the front of the cinematographic scene with a series of films he co-wrote with his partner Agnès Jaoui.
The duo won respectively the César 1994, 1997, 1998 and 2001 for best screenplay.
In 1992, they brought
Cooking and Addiction
to the screen
, an adaptation of their play of the same name in which he portrays a chilled and stunted lover who despises the bourgeois.
Their fruitful collaboration continued with
Smoking / No Smoking
(for Alain Resnais) in 1992,
Un air de famille
in 1996, in which he played a completely dumped husband,
We know the song
(for Alain Resnais again) in 1997, and
Le Goût others
in 1999 in which he plays a beauf in love with his English teacher.
All the roles he writes with Agnès Jaoui have a family resemblance, he built his typical character: a vehement misanthrope, cynical among neurotics, always in love.
The master of "Didier" in 1997
A cult fantasy comedy!
In 1997, Jean-Pierre Bacri played a bad-tempered football team manager because he was doubly in trouble in Alain Chabat's film
Didier
: on the ball side, things were wrong, and on the living room side, Didier, the Labrador we have just entrusted to him has mysteriously metamorphosed into a human, to whom he must tactfully explain that "we don't feel people's ass."
The caterer of "Sens de la fête" in 2017
In 2017, Jean-Pierre Bacri shines in front of the camera of the duo Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache in the role of Max Angeli, caterer and wedding planner juggling the hassles of the Party
Sense
.
A role tailor-made for the actor which earned him his ninth César nomination as an actor, after Subway (1986, supporting role), On Knows the Song (1998, supporting role), Kennedy et moi (2000, best actor), Le Goût des autres (2001, supporting role), Les Sentiments (2004, best actor), Look for Hortense (2013, best actor), The very private life of Monsieur Sim (2016, best actor).
For a single reward, therefore, with We know the song.
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