“He had elegance to create a comedy”: Pierre Richard depicts which movie he preferred to play in his great career and his choice is quite unexpected

At the age of 91, a good walk, Pierre Richard does not particularly want to hang gloves. This iconic actor of French cinema is more shared than ever his love as an actor and a director (his new film, the man who saw a bear that a man saw on September 17) and his wine property in the Narboni region.

Never mediocre with anecdotes that were very long career, Pierre Richard recently persuaded the French Inter microphone Podcast in bareWhere he especially noted his first great success, he was offended; The comedy he created himself and that he saw that he had a great Bernard bliss director. And he, with his own assumptions, “Terrorism” In the perspective of this Totem director of French cinema, known in a strong mouth.

“This is a movie that talks about the power of money”

This Saturday, September 13, the actor told Augustine Trapenard in his program Varieties, on RTL. Although multiple rumors about his health (“I’m the only one who knows what we say about me when I’m dead” He will release it), he will also disclose a movie in which he preferred the game. No, it’s not a goat, big blonde with black shoes, an umbrella blow or a fugitive, as you might think.

But this is still a Francis Were’s film, which also became a classic little: toy. “This is a film that talks about the power and the power of money. We can say that today is the same. Society is like this.” He admits. “She also talks about her father-son relationships, and I have never had a connection with my father, so it is clearly a story of this child who has lots of toys but who has no father’s attention, especially.”

And for rent a director’s intelligence to make a comedy: “Vera also had the elegance to make it a comedy, so it is a deep social film, but at the same time it has this lightness to make it a comedy.”

For the record, Pierre Richard portrays a journalist in this film who believes himself to become a “play-game” whom a child who cannot give up his father. This father (Michelle Bouquet), an important businessman, is very busy and only gives his branch love with wonderful gifts. But when he offers François Perin, he does not know that the latter will help his son (Fabriz Greco) leave his father …

Released in December 1976, the toy will attract more than 1.24 million spectators. However, it remains the most “weak” millions of films, Pierre Richard’s filmography, which is far from the goat’s entrance records and its 7.08 million access; Fugitive (4.49 million); Large blonde with black shoes (3.47 million), or even an umbrella blow (2.45 million).

46 years later, the toy will pass through a new version of Facelift, which is being implemented by Tandem Daniel Outill and Jamel Debbu. Really not a remake, but “New Proposal” According to the latter. The version published in 2022 attracted 916,865 spectators.