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Cannes in the retro: Gabin, the most discreet sacred monster

2022-05-21T07:15:50.081Z


DAY 5 - François Chalais' interviews marked the history of the Festival. Le Figaro and Madelen, the INA platform, invite you to find them from May 17 to 28. Back in 1958.


Jean Gabin hates social events and he does not hide it.

They make him uncomfortable and, as he usually says, waiting for three hundred people to sit down to finally start kissing is not his thing!

He likes having dinner at a fixed time.

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"

Cinépanorama

"

 by François Chalais with Jacques Tati


In 1949, when "Beyond the grids" by René Clément was rewarded, he discreetly congratulated his partner Isa Miranda, winner of the Prize for female interpretation.

To please friendly producers and directors, he sometimes deviated from this rule by sacrificing to the ritual of climbing the steps of the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1961, he thus appeared in front of the photographers on the arm of Françoise Arnoul, his partner, seven years earlier, in French Cancan, directed by Jean Renoir.

In 1958, on the other hand, he resolutely played the card of discretion.

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Came to receive on the Croisette the Volpi cup awarded by the Venice festival, he did not get off the Train Bleu in Cannes, as had been planned.

In order to escape the photographers and the crowd waiting for him on the platform, he preferred to wait for the next stop.

On leaving Juan-les-Pins station, however, he was filmed by the camera of François Chalais who had sniffed out the subterfuge… He did not hold it against a journalist whom he then considered a loyal friend.

He thus confided in him, all smiles, on the occasion of the release of

Archimedes the Tramp

.

A character he had been visibly happy to interpret.

Find François Chalais'

Cinépanorama

programs on Madelen, the Ina platform.

Source: lefigaro

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