A national tribute to Michel Bouquet will be held on April 27 at the Invalides, announced the Elysée.
Died yesterday, Wednesday April 13, at the age of 96, Michel Bouquet marked the theater and the cinema. A passionate actor, he has served great authors all his life, from Molière to Jean Anouilh, including Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. Winner of two César awards in the 2000s, he toured alongside the greatest directors such as François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Michel Audiard and Henri Verneuil.
President Emmanuel Macron, yesterday hailed “a sacred monster” who “for seven decades brought theater and cinema to the highest degree of incandescence and truth, showing man in all his contradictions, with an intensity that burned the boards and burst the screen”.
An artist whom the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot dreamed of her “invincible” side, to whom she paid tribute by celebrating “his intensity, his passion for the texts and the infinite nuances of his playing”.
For seven decades, Michel Bouquet brought theater and cinema to the highest degree of incandescence and truth, showing man in all his contradictions, with an intensity that burned the boards and burst the screen. A sacred monster has left us. pic.twitter.com/l3V5mz6EXd
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 13, 2022
His intensity, his passion for the texts and the infinite nuances of his acting have made Michel Bouquet an actor adored by the spectators, as well as by the artists who have had the pleasure of working with him.
I have a thought for all those who, like me, dreamed of being invincible.
— Roselyne Bachelot (@R_Bachelot) April 13, 2022