#depardieu

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“Kiss me, my hero.”

Michèle Baumgartner et Gérard Depardieu dans “La Femme d'à Côté” de François Truffaut (1981), mai 2023.

Truffaut’s early films get the most attention but I’ve become partial to a lot of his later work, which seemed imbued with everything he had ever learned as a student of cinema (and Hitchcock in particular). Less rebellious - more bourgeois, as Depardieu famously declared his director in the Last Metro, before relenting and working again with him in The Woman Next Door. To others, it was a refinement of a craft, by a consummate filmmaker who listened and learned as much as he spoke and created. 

1. Philippe Sarde - Barocco – Générique [1:53] 2. Philippe Sarde - Romance [0:51] 3. Philippe Sarde - Les temps modernes [1:12] 4. Philippe Sarde - Vent sur les affiches [1:26] 5. Philippe Sarde - "S'En Sortir" [1:42] 6. Philippe Sarde - La radicale [4:11] 7. Marie France - Barocco (On Se Voit Se Voir) [2:21] 8. Philippe Sarde - Portrait robot [2:15] 9. Philippe Sarde - La poursuite [1:33] 10. Philippe Sarde - "Mais Vous Vivez De Quoi?" [2:23] 11. Philippe Sarde - Les mers du sud [1:27]

At the time, Depardieu’s lawyer, Hervé Temime, said his client “absolutely denies having committed even the smallest offense or having behaved criminally in the slightest,” and in 2019, police dropped their investigation, concluding they lacked sufficient evidence to bring charges. But the woman refiled, triggering a new investigation in 2020, the Guardian notes. Charges followed late last year. The woman’s identity has not been disclosed, and her attorney, Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon, told the AFP that she hopes her “private sphere will be respected.”

Colonel Chabert