Released in theaters on October 11, Bernadette attracted almost 500,000 viewers in 2 weeks. Directed by Lea Domenach, this comedy pokes fun at the Chirac family, focusing on the journey of Bernadette, the wife of the former president of the Republic.
Playing with historical truth, the filmmaker offers Catherine Deneuve a colorful role that could earn her a César nomination for Best Actress. In the meantime, to prolong the pleasure, we offer 3 feature films with the Chiracs in the cinema.
Besides, what did the Chirac family think of Bernadette? We answered this question in our article of October 7. The character of Jacques Chirac appeared in a number of movies and television shows, played by several more or less convincing actors in the shoes of the former president. The latest, Michel Vuillérmois, plays Bernadette Chirac, who contrasts with everyone else.
The Gorji Case (2011)
Before Michel Villermoz, Thierry Lhermitte had already slipped into the costume of Jacques Chirac in The Gordian Affair, directed by Guillaume Niclu. This paper focuses on the first cohabitation of the 5th Republic between President François Mitterrand (Michel Duchaussault) and his Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. This is September 1986. A bomb exploded in the Rue de Rennes, in the heart of Paris. It is the deadliest attack in a long series of attacks in France for nearly a year.
General intelligence is in dire straits: there is no traditional lead on the trail of the instigator. And for good reason. A particularly worrisome suspect is slowly emerging: Iran, with which France has had a diplomatic dispute for years. The stakes are high for the state. In full cohabitation, it will become the next presidential election. Suffice it to say that the real weapons of war between Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
The Break Up (2012)
Directed by Laurent Heynemann, La Rupture follows the conflicted relationship between Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Hippolyte Girardeau) and Jacques Chirac. This time the former head of state is played by actor Gregory Deranger.
After the death of Georges Pompidou in 1974, Giscard d’Estaing was elected president after a turbulent campaign. On the surface, the rise of a new generation of young men to power looks positive, but the rift between the president and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac shows a less glamorous side of French politics.
The Last Campaign (2013)
After brilliantly playing Jacques Chirac in La Conquête in 2011, Bernard Le Coq once again donned the costume of head of state in La Dernierecampaign two years later. The plot takes us to December 15, 2011. In front of a stunned audience, the sanction falls: Jacques Chirac was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended, by the Paris Criminal Court. Never in the history of the republic has the former president experienced such insults.
The same evening, Jacques Chirac’s office published a press release. The old man refuses to appeal. He no longer has the strength to fight. Will Jacques Chirac, beyond age and illness, allow time to consume him? No, for it is an enchanted nail: sleep, the bearer of dreams, that erases age, revives desire, revives the future.
Invoking a dream, a great political beast will invite itself to the presidential campaign. Jacques Chirac patiently weaves the threads of reality to create the web of his dreams, entangling himself in the competition between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. Each of them has a certain idea about France. Which will win in the end?
Source: Allocine
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