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L’Homme qui a vu l’Homme qui a vu l’Ours: Pierre Richard celebrates friendship
IN THEATERS IN FRANCE ON SEPTEMBER 17 – L’Homme qui a vu l’ours qui a vu l’homme (The Man Who Saw the Bear Who Saw the Man), directed by and starring Pierre Richard, is now showing!
[Back to its Cannes premiere.]
With L’Homme qui a vu L’Ours qui a vu L’Homme, the legendary Pierre Richard dons his director’s hat again, 18 years after his last foray behind the camera. This sensitive and fantastical feature film is revealed to us in a Special Screening.
We all know the outlandish performer, the actor who entertained generations of French children with Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) (1972). We laughed at his clumsiness in La Moutarde me monte au nez (I’m Losing My Temper) (1974) and loved him in his best suit in François Perrin’s La Chèvre (The Goat) (1981). However, we are less familiar with Pierre Richard’s directorial talents. Yet, this screen legend delights us with L’Homme qui a vu L’Ours qui a vu L’Homme his ninth work behind the camera, shot outside Gruissan, in Occitania, where he lives.
He hadn’t directed a film since Droit dans le mur (Straight into the Wall) (1997). His previous eight feature films were all produced between 1970 and 1997. With Le Distrait (Distracted) (1970) or Les Malheurs d’Alfred (The Troubles of Alfred) (1972) he had found a perfect way of denouncing the evils of our consumer society at the time.
His tender new work involves an intergenerational friendship between 90-year-old Grégoire, played by Pierre Richard, and Michel, portrayed by Timi-Joy Marbot, a young 19-year-old actor last seen in Sous la Seine (Under Paris) (2024), Astrid et Raphaëlle (Astrid: Murder in Paris) (2019), and Grâce à Dieu (By the Grace of God) (2019). With a starring role for Shadow, the 800-kilogram bear who escaped the zoo and leaves an indelible print.
