The virus from which Rémy Julienne died on January 21, at the age of 90, did not allow his friends to come with him on the day of his burial in his native Cepoy.
To repair this twist of fate, Justine Poulin, her partner, invited all her movie friends to come and celebrate her memory in Paris in the Saint-Roch church dedicated to performing artists.
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Led by Claude Lelouch who used the talents of the ace of stunt aces in the cult
Adventure is adventure
and "
who came to accompany a friend
", a host of actors, directors and technicians of cinema came to testify to the attachment which bound them sometimes for more than half a century to that which regulated the special effects of some six
James Bonds
.
In this parterre one could recognize Benoît Magimel, Alain Terzian, Cyrielle Clair - who will confide that Jean-Paul Belmondo is "
by thought with him, with us
" -, Candice Patou, Bernard Menez, Daniel Russo, Katia Tchenko, Vincent Perrot but also the former rally champion Bernard Darniche.
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Nobody, even those who could not come, will have forgotten
“the Einstein of the waterfall”
(dixit Claude Lelouch) since Costa-Gavras, the current owner of the Cinémathèque, and Gilles Jacob, the former patron of the Cannes Film Festival, had the delicacy to send messages of admiration for the cinematographic work of Rémy Julienne which were read aloud in front of the audience.
The love of risk and the risk of love
After very fine speeches from Philippe Pasquini, Yves de Richebourg, Vincent Perrot and Sam Bobino, specialists in stunts, who all insisted on the human and professional qualities of Rémy Julienne, because "
never a hothead, he always tried to reduce the risks. minimum
”, Father Luc Reydel devotes a very beautiful homily to him on the philosophical difference that exists between the love of risk and the risk of love, that is to say of life, which according to him will have been the raison d'être of Rémy Julienne.
Roger Moore:
"Without Rémy Julienne, James Bond would not have existed"