michel piccoli:
a now gone French screen & theatre legend
12th Mai, 2020Best actor prizes in Cannes in 1980 for Marco Bellochio's A Leap in the Dark and a Silver Bear in Berlin two years later for Pierre Granier-Deferre's Strange Affair, Piccoli starred in a string of classics which redefined world cinema, from Luis Bunel's "Belle de Jour" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" to a typically memorable turn opposite Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" in 1963.
Photography © As “a masterful performer with a wickedly malicious edge”, he worked along the way with a checklist of just about every French directors from Jean-Luc Godard, Melville, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet to Jacques Rivette and Leos Carax, as well as non-Gallic auteurs Manoel de Oliveira, Mario Bava, Marco Ferreri, Luis Buñuel and Hitchcock.
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