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Authentique but True! 

by Gilles Botineau, published on March 31, 2021 by Éditions Christian Navarro.


Her favorite quote:

Finally, I'm thinking about it now, I think I could have spent my whole career in theater and music hall.

It would have suited me perfectly.

To those who don't like my films, I want to answer them: "Complain to the producers, they are the ones who came to get me!"

»I hadn't asked for anything ...


Why this book?

  • Because Philippe Clair, a forgotten filmmaker of schoolboy and popular comedies, reveals himself in this book of interviews carried out shortly before his death in November 2020, with humor but also tenderness, emotion, nostalgia.

  • Because this book allows you to (re) immerse yourself in the French culture (but not only) of the years 1960/1970/1980.

    The opportunity to come across the names of Annie Girardot, Louis de Funès, Fernandel, Les Charlots, Aldo Maccione, Sim, Jacques Dufilho, Francis Blanche or even Jerry Lewis.


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

  The director Philippe Clair invites us on a journey through time to evoke his most beautiful encounters (but also the worst), without forgetting his successes, his failures, his anger… and sometimes even, his regrets.

Characters.

 Philippe Clair, and many personalities, French or international.

Places.

 Paris, Nice, Marseille, Sidi Kacem, Tunis.

The time.

 From the 1960s to today.

The author.

 Before this book of interviews with Philippe Clair, director of 16 feature films (La Grande java, Le Führer en folie, Rodriguez au pays des merguez, Plus beau que moi tu meurs ...) who died in November 2020, the journalist Gilles Botineau had signed two other biographies of popular cinema personalities: one devoted to Aldo Maccione, the other to Christian Clavier.

This book was read with

 passion and curiosity.

Each page brings its share of stories and revelations.

This is how we are in turn picked, amused or moved, depending on what is told to us.

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