When in 2017, an interview for
Le Sens de la fête
, with Nakache and Toledano, offered us the opportunity to share a taxi with him, we had secretly blessed Anne Hidalgo - to whom he had given his support to the Town Hall of Paris - for the terrible traffic.
By making the race last, she prolonged the pleasure of chatting with him.
Traffic, there was no question.
Because in
Kitchen and dependencies,
the piece which launched in 1991 his fruitful collaboration with his accomplice Agnès Jaoui, he already commented, exasperated, this obviousness:
"In Paris, THERE ARE traffic jams!"
We hadn't talked politics either.
Even if the committed artist that he was had confessed to us, with the teasing air of a gentleman, to be pleasantly surprised by the openness of a journalist from
Figaro Magazine
.
But on the theater and the cinema, it was inexhaustible.
Modest, he did not mention any of the successes that have marked his forty-year career: some fifty films, many of which belong to
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