CRITICISM – Bertrand Tessier’s excellent documentary paints an uncompromising portrait of one of the great supporting roles of French cinema, who strayed into collaboration, under the influence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Not to be missed this Wednesday March 2 at 10:20 p.m. on Ciné + Classic and on MyCanal until March 17. An old man with […]
DECRYPTION – The literary historian, Franck Lhomeau has written two books dedicated to Michel Audiard, published by Joseph K. and Actes Sud, which focus in particular on the work of adapting the trilogy of Grisbi by Albert Simonin. Grisbi and aslutfrom a good family, colorful dreams, a Raphaelian hand, a small jail in Biên Hoa […]
DISAPPEARANCE – The French filmmaker died on Sunday January 23 at the age of 85. An unclassifiable man of cinema, he wanted all his life to reconcile the spirit of the new wave of Truffaut and Varda with the comic or satirical verve of Lautner and Audiard. He admired with the same sincerity François Truffaut, […]
DISAPPEARANCE – The actor, born in Berlin in 1928, died on January 19 at the age of 93. In the 1960s, he played in France with talent under the direction of Georges Lautner and Denys de la Patellière in films with dialogue by Michel Audiard. In A Taxi for Tobruk, he plays Captain Ludwig von […]