Paris (AFP)
The actor and screenwriter Jean-Pierre Bacri died Monday of cancer at the age of 69, his agent Anne Alvares-Correa told AFP.
"He died early in the afternoon," in Paris, the agent told AFP.
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 " The Taste of Others ", and once that of the best actor in a supporting role 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 bright types of happiness": "tracking down the lived experience, sobriety, modesty", "refusing cheating" is a profession of faith.
His talent exploded alongside Agnès Jaoui, whom he met in 1987 at the theater in Pinter's "Birthday".
Very quickly, the "Jacri" - as Resnais nicknamed them - pooled their sour humor and their gift of observation to write with four hands.
Their first play "Kitchen and dependencies" (1992) is a success quickly adapted to the cinema, just like "Un air de famille" (1996).
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