Writing without Jean-Pierre Bakr is “still a bit difficult” for Agnes Jauy

This week on the Cours de la vie bill, where she plays a screenwriter who comes to a master class at her favorite childhood film school (played by Jonathan Zakai), Agnes Jauy spoke to the microphone of Pierre Lescourt about her collaboration. His accomplice Jean-Pierre Bakry and his writing difficulties after the latter’s death on January 18, 2021.

The actor, director and screenwriter has worked with actor and writer Jean-Pierre Bakry for 30 years. We owe them especially Kitchen and Dependencies in 1992, Un air de famille (1996), We Know the Song (1997), The Taste of Others in 2000 and more recently Place Publique.

“From limitation comes creativity”

on the air of France 2, Nice gestureAgnes Jauy explains:I believe that Jean-Pierre was not happy with what he was shooting. And I wasn’t happy with what I didn’t get, because I didn’t get anything at all and I wasn’t offered anything. So we both said, “Let’s try to do something on our own. From limitations comes creativity..”

But after her lifelong accomplice disappears, Agnes Jauy admits she’s struggling to write the film.

When Pierre Lescourt questions him about what he writes, the actor states without emotion: “I am writing a kind of autobiographical novel about my childhood. I’ve been writing here and there… a project we had with Jean-Pierre that stopped. Then more personal projects. The next movie, no, it’s still a bit difficult.”

Therefore Agnes Jauy is not yet ready to write a film without Jean-Pierre Bakr, but you can find her in front of Frederic Sauger’s camera the course of lifeIn theaters from Wednesday, May 10.

The actor will join the cast of Bruno Podalides’ next feature film, Wahou!, starting June 7th, and will then reprise his role as Daphne Pataccia and Benoit Poelvoorde in On the Branch, in theaters July 19th.

Next, Agnes Jauy will play William Lebgill’s whimsical mother in Julien Carpentier’s comedy My Mother’s Life.