Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri in Let's Talk About The Rain Photo: UniFrance One of French cinema's most beloved actors (as well as script writer and director) Jean-Pierre Bacri died earlier today after a long struggle with cancer.
Bacri who was 69, often appeared in tandem with his constant companion of many years Agnès Jaoui whom he met in 1986 during rehearsals for Harold Pinter’s play The Birthday Party. It was a starting point for an enduring personal and professional collaboration including the script written jointly for first the theatre and then cinema of Cuisine et dépendances. It was followed by the adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s Intimate Exchanges, Smoking/No Smoking (directed by Alain Resnais), in 1993, for which they won a César, and followed by Cédric Klapisch’s Family Resemblances(also a César winner) in 1996. He scored a reputation outside France for Same Old Song (1997), also by Alain Resnais.
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Bacri who was 69, often appeared in tandem with his constant companion of many years Agnès Jaoui whom he met in 1986 during rehearsals for Harold Pinter’s play The Birthday Party. It was a starting point for an enduring personal and professional collaboration including the script written jointly for first the theatre and then cinema of Cuisine et dépendances. It was followed by the adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s Intimate Exchanges, Smoking/No Smoking (directed by Alain Resnais), in 1993, for which they won a César, and followed by Cédric Klapisch’s Family Resemblances(also a César winner) in 1996. He scored a reputation outside France for Same Old Song (1997), also by Alain Resnais.
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- 1/18/2021
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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