Starring in the film Le Sens de la Fête, broadcast on Sunday November 20, 2022 from 9:05 p.m. on TF1, Jean-Pierre Bacri died at the age of 69 on January 18, 2021. Closer today reveals how the actor passed away.
TF1 viewers will have the opportunity to discover, or rediscover, an already cult comedy directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano Sunday, November 20, 2022. On this day, the first channel will rebroadcast the feature film entitled The sense of celebration, from 9:05 p.m. This film features the character of Max, an experienced wedding planner, who must prepare the wedding of Pierre and Héléna in a prestigious castle. To achieve this, he must call on a team of waiters, find cooks, a photographer, an orchestra and an animator, all managing everyone’s requests and problems, as well as their own. The main character of this feature film is played on screen by the late Jean-Pierre Bacri, who died at the age of 69 on January 18, 2021.
In fact, the actor died of cancer. During his fight against the disease, Jean-Pierre Bacri was followed by doctor Pierre Squara, head of the intensive care unit at the Ambroise Paré clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine. “I am part of this team of unfortunate doctors who have accompanied him in recent months. I say unhappy because we would have liked to do more for him“, indicated the doctor of the deceased actor, during his passage on the antenna of BFMTV, the day of the death of Jean-Pierre Bacri.We found him like in his films. He demanded to be treated like everyone else. He showed great courage, because the end was not easy. We had to negotiate. Sometimes he would say no, so we had to argue. We had dialogues that looked a bit like those in his films“, also added doctor Pierre Squara about the late actor. Shortly after the announcement of his death, many personalities, but also many anonymous people, paid tribute to Jean-Pierre Bacri.
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“I adored Jean-Pierre Bacri before meeting him and even more after. Whether we crossed his path or not, he was our friend. So many reasons to love her“, declared Alain Chabat, who had the opportunity to collaborate several times with the actor during his career. For his part, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had also had a thought for the actor, given that he wrote on Twitter that Jean-Pierre Bacrihad a sense of celebration and a taste for others. Jean-Pierre Bacri, the most tender of our complainers is gone. Like an image, his laconic and sensitive humanity will continue to populate our lives.“. In order to pay tribute to the actor, TF1 had turned its programming upside down by precisely broadcasting the comedy The Meaning of the Party for the first time in clear on January 24, 2021 in prime time. The feature film had been viewed on average by 7.2 million viewers, which represented a 31% audience share of the entire audience aged 4 and over. It was quite simply the best audience of the year 2021 for a film broadcast on the antenna of TF1. The funeral of Jean-Pierre Bacri will take place in private on January 26, 2021 at the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery.. He will then receive an honorary Cesar posthumously on March 12, 2021.