From child star at Blier to anonymous at 23... The descent into hell of Riton Liebman, hero of Prepare your tissues.

At 13, he burst onto the screen alongside Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere in Bertrand Blier's film. But afterwards, the cinema only offered him a subscription to supporting roles. In a confession book, The Star of the Neighborhood, he recounts his disappointments and the cruelty of the seventh art of film-making.