After Bernadette, what are the 3 best films in which Jacques Chirac appears? Here is a selection of 3 notable works featuring the former President of the Republic.
Bernadette, released in cinemas on October 11, attracted nearly 500,000 spectators in 2 weeks. Directed by Léa Domenach, this comedy has fun with the Chirac family by focusing on the journey of Bernadette, wife of the former president of the republic.
While playing with historical truth, the filmmaker offers Catherine Deneuve a colorful role which could earn her a nomination for the César for Best Actress. In the meantime, to prolong the pleasure, we offer you 3 feature films featuring the Chiracs at the cinema.
Furthermore, what did the Chirac family think of Bernadette? We answered this question in our article of October 7. The character of Jacques Chirac has appeared in the cinema or on television in numerous productions, portrayed by several more or less convincing actors in the skin of the former president. The latest, Michel Vuillermoz, plays in Bernadette a Chirac who contrasts with all the others.
The Gordji Affair (2011)
Before Michel Vuillermoz, Thierry Lhermitte already slipped into the costume of Jacques Chirac in The Gordji Affair, directed by Guillaume Nicloux. This work focuses on the first cohabitation of the 5th Republic between President François Mitterrand (Michel Duchaussoy) and his Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac. It is September 1986. Rue de Rennes, in the heart of Paris, a bomb explodes. It is the deadliest attack in a long series which has hit France for almost a year.
General Intelligence is in dire straits: there is no traditional lead to trace the instigator. And for good reason. Slowly, a particularly disturbing suspect is emerging: Iran, with which France has had a diplomatic dispute for years. For the State, the stakes are high. In full cohabitation, it will become that of the upcoming presidential elections. Suffice to say, a real weapon of war between François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
The Breakup (2012)
Directed by Laurent Heynemann, La Rupture evokes the conflictual relationship between Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Hippolyte Girardot) and Jacques Chirac. This time, it is the actor Grégori Dérangère who lends his stature to the former head of state.
After the death of Georges Pompidou in 1974, Giscard d’Estaing was elected president following a stormy campaign. On the surface, the arrival of a new generation of younger men in power seems positive, but the divisions between the president and the prime minister, Jacques Chirac, show the less glamorous side of French politics.
The Last Campaign (2013)
After brilliantly playing Jacques Chirac in La Conquête in 2011, Bernard Le Coq once again dons the costume of head of state in La Dernierecampaign two years later. The plot takes us to December 15, 2011. In front of an astonished audience, the sanction falls: Jacques Chirac is sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court to two years in prison, suspended. Never in the history of the Republic has a former president suffered such an affront.
The same evening, Jacques Chirac’s office published a press release. The old man gives up on appealing. He no longer has the strength to fight. Sidelined by age and illness, will Jacques Chirac allow himself to be swallowed up by the passage of time? No, because there is an enchanted parenthesis: sleep, the bearer of dreams, which erases age, revives desire, resurrects the future.
Summoning the dream, the great political beast will invite himself into the presidential campaign. Patiently weaving the threads of reality to make the web of his dreams, Jacques Chirac interferes in the contest between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. Each of them has a certain idea of France. Which one will ultimately prevail?