This Wednesday, April 13, the world of cinema mourns the death of Michel Bouquet, this immense actor Caesarized for his role in Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars.
He was a very great actor. Michel Bouquet, known in particular for his roles in The Unfaithful Wife or Borsalino is passed away on Wednesday April 13, at the age of 96. All his life, the actor dedicated it to the cinema, he who received in 2005, the César for best actor for his role in The Walker of the Champ-de-Mars, in which he played the role of François Mitterrand. It was in 1944, at the age of 19, that Michel Bouquet took his first steps in the theater with Tartuffe Where the impostor by Moliere, Damis Danton by Romain Rolland or even The Thirteenth Tree by André Gide.
With nearly 80 plays performed, Michel Bouquet will end his theatrical career in 2017. But he will not stop at the theater, since the cinema will open the doors to him. Indeed, the actor will play in more 65 films and around fifty television films signed François Truffaut, Jacques Deray, Henri Verneuil or Alain Corneau and Claude Chabrol. “During the six films that I shot for him, I always tried to guess his point of view: what secrets could hide behind his desire to make such and such a film? Because he could well declare having written especially for me The Unfaithful Woman, I personally felt nothing in common with this bourgeois murderer character…”he told Telerama in 2010.
A legendary role in Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars
Michel Bouquet never wanted to make movies like everyone else. Indeed, he liked to play in films made by young artists. In the 90s and 2000s, the actor will be rarer in cinema and theater. He will still play Chops by Bertrand Blier then in The Walker of the Champ de Mars by Robert Guédiguian, which also allowed him to win the César for best actor in 2006. At the age of 80, he will play the role of François Mitterrand.
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Michael Bouquet
It was in 1944, at the age of 19, that Michel Bouquet took his first steps in the theater with Tartuffe or The Imposter by Molière, Damis Danton by Romain Rolland or The Thirteenth Tree by André Gide.
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Michael Bouquet
With nearly 80 plays performed, Michel Bouquet will end his theatrical career in 2017. But he will not stop at the theater, since the cinema will open the doors to him.
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Michael Bouquet
Indeed, the actor will play in more than 65 films and fifty television films signed François Truffaut, Jacques Deray, Henri Verneuil or Alain Corneau and Claude Chabrol.
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Michael Bouquet
“During the six films I shot for him, I always tried to guess his point of view”
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Michael Bouquet
“What secrets could hide behind his desire to make such and such a film? ”
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Michael Bouquet
“Because he could well declare that he had written La Femme infidèle especially for me, I personally felt nothing in common with this character of a bourgeois assassin…”, he told Télérama in 2010.
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Michael Bouquet
Michel Bouquet never wanted to make movies like everyone else. Indeed, he liked to act in films made by young artists.
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Michael Bouquet
In the 90s and 2000s, the actor will be rarer in cinema and theater.
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Michael Bouquet
He will play all the same in Les Côtelettes by Bertrand Blier then in Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars by Robert Guédiguian, which also allows him to win the César for best actor in 2006.
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Michael Bouquet
At the age of 80, he will play the role of François Mitterrand.