If we do not yet know in what form a tribute will be paid to them, the 46th César ceremony has planned to greet all the great actors, directors and screenwriters who passed away in 2020 and at the beginning of this year 2021. Some like Guy Bedos , Claude Brasseur or Michel Piccoli embodied a formidably talented generation.
They are sorely missed in our time.
As will miss Jean-Pierre Bacri, the favorite grumbler of the French and undoubtedly the most tender of actors.
March
12: Toni Marshall, 68, actress and director
The only daughter of Micheline Presle, an actress in her debut, became in the second part of her career the only woman to receive the César for best director, for
Vénus Beauté (Institute)
.
She will receive two other statuettes for this film.
She will then play Catherine Deneuve in
Au plus près du Paradis
.
She is also interested in social aspects, as in 2003 in
France Boutique
, or in 2017 in
Number one
with Emmanuelle Devos as a brilliant engineer decided to take the head of a CAC 40 company.
April
29: Irrfan Khan, 53, actor
The Indian actor rose to prominence when British filmmaker Asif Kapadia called on him for a role in
The Warrior
(2001).
Praised, the film earned him to be spotted in India by a new generation of directors.
In 2008, his face became world famous thanks to
Danny Boyle's
Slumdog Millionaire
, an eight Oscar-winning film in which he played a police inspector.
Irrfan Khan had continued his career in the United States by starring in blockbusters like
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012).
May
12: Michel Piccoli, 94, actor
A monument of French cinema, the actor was famous for his roles in
Le contempt
,
The things of life
or more recently
Habemus papam
.
Remarkably longevity, his career is inseparable from the films of Luis Buñuel and Claude Sautet.
Under the direction of the first, he interpreted troubled characters (
The diary of a chambermaid, Belle de jour, The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
) before becoming an incarnation of the glorious Thirty, unchanging cigarette in the mouth, at the second , in the 1970s (
Max and the scrap dealers, Vincent, François, Paul… and the others
).
Eclectic in his choices, he has also toured under the direction of Renoir, Resnais, Demy, Melville, Varda and Hitchcock.
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24: Jean-Loup Dabadie, 81, screenwriter, lyricist, man of letters
He has written many novels, screenplays, sketches but also the words of some of the greatest hits of his last fifty years.
Barbara, Julien Clerc, Reggiani, Sardou but also Jean Gabin were among his greatest performers.
"We will all go to paradise, even me, whether we are blessed or cursed ..."
It is to Dabadie that Michel Polnareff owes one of his greatest successes in 1972. And Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli, for
The Things of Life
, hummed
The Song of Helene
.
Read also:
Academician Jean-Loup Dabadie died at 81
28: Guy Bedos, 85, actor and comedian
An unforgettable actor in a few French-style comedies, fiercely committed to the left, he had made a solid reputation as a gunslinger.
Guy Bedos, it was this silhouette who paced the stage relentlessly, playing texts often signed by his accomplice Jean-Loup Dabadie.
We remember
The dredge
,
Love you each other
or the
boxer (M'sieur Ramirez)
and
Bonne fête Paulette
.
In the 1970s, his film career marked the minds of millions of French people.
It turns under the direction of Yves Robert
Un éléphant ça trompe enormously
(1976) and its sequel
We will all go to paradise
(1977).
Read also:
Guy Bedos, funny with sad
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July
6: Ennio Morricone, 91, conductor
A prolific composer, he has signed the soundtrack of more than 500 feature films during a career of 59 years.
His chivalrous epics for Sergio Leone and his distressing melodies for Dario Argento and Mario Bava, among others, will have played a big role in the popularization of “
spaghetti western
” and giallo.
His best composition remained in his eyes
Once upon a time in America
.
During his career, the Roman won, among others, an Honorary Oscar, four Baftas and two Golden Globes.
To read also:
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26: Olivia de Havilland, 104, actress
Unforgettable Mélanie of the enormous success
Gone with the Wind
(1939) by Victor Fleming, she was the dean of Hollywood, of which she embodied the golden age of the 1930s and 1940s.
The actress twice awarded the Oscar for best actress had lived in France since the early 1950s. Present in 2011 at the 36th Cesar ceremony, she received a standing ovation from the Châtelet theater.
Read also:
Olivia de Havilland, the Hollywood tigress
31: Alan Parker, 76, director
Creator of an extremely large work, he was recognized worldwide for what will go down as one of the flagship films of the 1970s:
Midnight Express.
He won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985 for
Birdy
.
He also shone in musical films like
Fame, Pink Floyd- The Wall
or
Evita
, in which he starred Madonna.
In total, his works have won 19 Baftas, 10 Golden Globes and 10 Oscars.
Read also:
Alan Parker, a director of the big melody and the little melody
August
29: Chadwick Boseman, 43, actor
Marvel Studios' planetary success star
Black Panther
(2018) had become the first black superhero to be entirely devoted to a film in the franchise.
Prior to this role, he played baseball legend Jackie Robinson in
Brian Helgeland's
42
in 2013. He was also praised for his portrayal of singer James Brown in
Tate Taylor's
Get on Up
in 2014. More recently, he appeared in
Da 5 Bloods
by Spike Lee.
Read also:
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October
31: Sean Connery, 90, actor
The Scottish actor was the legendary performer of James Bond seven times.
Sean Connery will remain the one, the true, the only spy of His Gracious Majesty.
It is he who appears inside the barrel of a bloody weapon in the credits created by Maurice Binder.
He who pronounces for the first time the famous:
“My name is Bond.
James Bond.
"
He who casually orders a Vodka Martini,
" with a shaker, not with a spoon
.
He who has a license to kill 007 and draws his Walther PPK, while driving the shiny Aston Martin DB5, in
Goldfinger,
in 1965.
Read also:
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November
18: Michel Robin, 90, actor
Discreet, but unwavering in love with the theater, Michel Robin had received at the age of 60 a Molière for a supporting role in
La Traversée de hiver
, a play by Yasmina Reza, directed by Patrice Kerbrat.
“We know my face, but not my name… I was the Poulidor of love!
»,
Used to say this former member of the Comédie-Française.
Shy until the end, he was nevertheless recognized by the public and the profession.
Very present in the theater, he was also in the cinema in
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
, by Gérard Oury (1973),
La Chèvre
, by Francis Veber with Gérard Depardieu (1981),
Merci pour le chocolat
, by Claude Chabrol (2000) or
The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain
, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
December
22: Claude Brasseur, 84, actor
Coming from a line of actors, he marked six decades of French cinema and theater, in addition to 110 films, alongside Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Claude Sautet and Yves Robert.
For the youngest, it was Jacky, the dean of the
campsite
, for their elders, Vidocq or Vic's father in
La boum.
The son of Pierre Brasseur and the novelist Odette Joyeux, received two Césars for the comedy
Un éléphant ça trompe enormously
in 1977 and for
La Guerre des Polices
in 1980.
Read also: Death of Claude Brasseur, the actor of all roles
January 2021
1st: Jean Panisse
He had been discovered by Pagnol.
With his southern accent to cut with a knife and his good nature, Jean Panisse had been chosen by the writer to play Eliacim, a colorful peasant, in the original adaptation of
Manon des sources
.
It was this film that launched his career in 1952. Having become an essential supporting role, he was then the junkyard of
Do not get angry
in 1966
.
During this decade
,
this
incarnation of the Phocaean city in flesh and blood has also rubbed shoulders with Louis de Funès and "Bebel" in the cinema.
To read also: Death of Jean Panisse, actor with the formidable Marseille-style
17: Jacques Bral, director
A rare filmmaker, Jacques Bral will be remembered for
Exterior Night
, a nocturnal journey through the streets of Paris.
Released in 1980, this film featured an unprecedented trio (Gérard Lanvin, Christine Boisson and André Dussolier), in a post-sixty-eight fable shot exclusively in moonlight.
The director will then release
Polar
in 1984,
Bad boy
(1993),
Spring in Paris
(2006) with Eddy Mitchell and
Le noir (te) suits you so well
in 2012.
Read also: The filmmaker Jacques Bral, director of
Exterior night
, has died
18: Jean-Pierre Bacri, actor and screenwriter
We read it and reread it according to the tributes, Jean-Pierre Bacri was the favorite grumbler of the French.
He was above all a talented actor and screenwriter, handling acid humor and tenderness with extreme finesse.
Passed by the theater, the actor will have marked the French cinema by his inimitable style, often sharing the pen with Agnès Jaoui.
Dedicated five times to the Caesar (once as best actor for a supporting role and four times as best screenplay).
To read also: Jean-Pierre Bacri: we will no longer moan together
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21: Nathalie Delon, actress
It belongs to the legend Delon.
Same feline and insolent beauty as Alain, who she looked like a sister.
The history of cinema will remember that his first appearance on the screen was his masterstroke.
In The
Samurai
by Jean-Pierre Melville, she plays Jane Lagrange, the mistress of Jeff Costello, a hired killer.
With Alain Delon, she will play her only comedy film
Doucement les basses
under the direction of Jacques Deray.
Her career will continue without him in the 1970s, she will be notably noticed in
The very good and very joyful story of Colinot Trousse chemise
by Nina Companeez.
To read also:
Nathalie Delon, eternal accomplice of the
Samurai
February 2021
8: Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter and writer
Comfortable in all genres, Jean-Claude Carrière has undeniably marked the culture of his last sixty years.
In the cinema, he has put his talents as a storyteller to the benefit of many directors, including Milos Forman, Volker Schlöndorff, with
Le Tambour
, Andrzej Wajda, with
Danton
, Jean-Paul Rappeneau with C
yrano de Bergerac
and above all Luis Bunuel.
The two men will sign six films together, from the
Diary of a chambermaid
to
This obscure object of desire
.
In 1983 he was awarded the César for Best Original Screenplay for
The Return of Martin Guerre.
Read also:
Jean-Claude Carrière, genius storyteller
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