220 roles, Michel Piccoli
Yuri Kovalenko (Paris)
December 27 marks the 85 years of brilliant Michel Piccoli. One of the most charismatic and popular actors of his generation, he has played over 220 roles in film classics ribbons
His filmed by Jean Renoir, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Marco Ferreri, Alain Resnais, Claude Saute, Claude Lelouch and Otar Iosseliani. Actor wide range, it can easily go from drama to comedy, from musicals to a thriller. Despite its popularity, it has never been a star status. He never appeared in teletusovkah and gossip, practically does not give interviews. "I love the secret mystery to me inherent in doubt. I do not understand those who embarks on a revelation, exposing the soul" - once admitted Piccoli. "It is a mystery that I did not manage to solve" - says his former wife - a famous singer Juliette Greco, who lived with him for about ten years.
Michel Piccoli was born in the family of the pianist and violinist. He made his debut in the play by Leonid Leonov's "Invasion", which in 1945 was in Paris. In 1955 he attracted attention in the film by Jean Renoir's "French Cancan" by Jean Gabenom. Wide recognition came to him relatively late - at age 38, after tapes of Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt." Piccoli extremely valued itself Luis Bunuel, with whom he starred in six ribbons, including a "modest charm of the bourgeoisie," "Morning Glory", "Diary of a chambermaid." Maitre admired actor generosity, his generosity, sincerity and sense of humor. Some of his best roles Piccoli played in films by Claude Saute: "Little things of life," "Max and tinsmiths," "Vincent, Francois, Paul and others," "Mado", where his partners were, in particular, Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu and Romy Schneider.
Sometimes sarcastic and slightly cynical, Piccoli never sought to shock the audience. However, he, together with Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi was destined to play in one of the most controversial bands of world cinema - "Great grub" Marco Ferreri. In this satire on consumer society, they played a fellow foodies who organize suicide orgy. He also paid tribute to the eroticism in the film "In the life-size," where his character falls in love with an inflatable rubber doll.
Once Piccoli played ... Nikita Khrushchev. It happened in the movie "everyone has his movie," prepared by the 60 th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, 36 directors from 25 countries. In the role of the Soviet leader, he starred in a short story by Manuel de Oliveira "The only meeting.
Piccoli tried his hand at directing, directed several movies, wrote the script, he produced, helping the young director, but kept returning to the theater. In the early 1980's he twice played in "The Cherry Orchard," the great Peter Brook. When he turned 80, walked onto the stage of the Paris Odéon Theatre in King Lear. " Last year, in a play by Thomas Bernhard, "Minetti" he played the old actor, who talks about life and death.
Politically biased Piccoli consistently advertise their leftism and youth in the ranks of the communist peace movement. Later the actor walked away from the Communists, and became a supporter of the Socialist Party. In the presidential election, he has always called for support for its candidates - from François Mitterrand to Segolene Royal.
In his 85 years Piccoli claimed. True, the theater, he now refuses - passed memory. And does not want it, he said, "to die on stage." Nevertheless, he acted in many movies. In the future, the screens will leave at least four of his film. Among them, Nanni Moretti comedy "We have a pope" - a cardinal, the newly elected head of the Vatican. And biopic Romy Schneider, as well as tape 88-year old Alain Resnais, "You is not seen nothing yet." A few days ago the actor announced that his valedictory work in film will be a movie, "My wife will buy a car, which he would withdraw himself.
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