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
Le Goût des autres
, and once that of the best actor in a supporting role for
We know the song,
Jean-Pierre Bacri died Monday January 18 at 69 years old.
Collection of the greatest films of the favorite grump of the French.
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The Great Pardon
, 1982
With
Alexandre Arcady's
Le Grand Pardon
, we dive into the French blackfoot Jewish mafia world, with the accents of Sicilian godfathers, without falling into easy mimicry, nor the seriousness of Don Corleone.
Released in 1982, the film was not very well received by critics.
Whatever.
It has become, over time, a reference.
Above all, he presents Jean-Pierre Bacri in one of his first roles in the cinema.
Funny, aggressive as he often is but also scary.
The anecdote: the Zemour brothers, a clan of Algerian Jews from Sétif, believing to have inspired Arcady for his Bettoun family, would have threatened the director during the shooting.
It is, finally, Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior at the time, who uses his influence so that the film is shot without incident.
My Best Friends
, 1989
In
My Best Friends
, Jean-Pierre Bacri plays Guido, a former hippy, homosexual, sober since the arrival of AIDS in 1983. To satisfy his libido, he plays sports.
Lots of sport.
Secondary story compared to the initial plot, the role he occupies is like those of his partners in the film: touching.
A beautiful moment of nostalgia.
Kitchen and Outbuildings
, 1993
Jean-Pierre Bacri had co-wrote the play with Agnès Jaoui and had obtained a Molière for
Cuisine et Dépendances.
The film adaptation was all the more greeted by the public who savored this family story that is torn behind the scenes of a failed dinner.
The film is the actor's first as a screenwriter.
A good start, which will presage his future successes.
Smoking / No smoking
, 1993
Directed by Alain Resnais and co-written with Agnès Jaoui,
Smoking / No Smoking
is the occasion of the first award as a screenwriter for Jean-Pierre Bacri: it is crowned by the César for best screenplay in 1994. Pierre Arditi and Sabine Azéma are at the casting.
We will find them again, a few years later, in
We know the song
.
Family
Resemblance, 1996
Undoubtedly one of the most typical roles of Jean-Pierre Bacri, where his character, an angry and lonely tenant, irritates and tenderizes in turn, against a background of family conflict.
In writing, once again, he finds Agnès Jaoui;
Cédric Klapisch joins them for the film adaptation of this new play.
Bacri again won the César for best original screenplay for this film.