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	Michel Piccoli \| Borugeois or bizarre
		There is a certain irony, that Michel Piccoli would probably relish, in the fact that the films for which he is best known and most valued in England and America are those for which he was most reviled in France.
		And it is some measure of Piccoli's capabilities that not only does he embody that minimal direction perfectly, he also suggests an abrasiveness and hurt quite at odds with his recognized 'image' of that time.
		Piccoli can certainly appear to be as withdrawn and insulated as the nameless participants in Resnais' L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad (1961, Last Year in Marienbad), but it clearly does not spring grom any emotional indifference.
	www.leninimports.com /michel_piccoli.html (972 words)

	Michel Piccoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor.
		He was born to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist.
		Piccoli is politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the National Front.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michel_Piccoli (157 words)

	Stars of French Film: Biographies
		Michel Piccoli is a remarkably hairy man. Wiry great tufts sprout from his shirt collar and heavy brows hang over his eyes, every now and then shooting up quizzically as he pauses over an answer.
		Piccoli was born in 1925 in Paris, the son of famous musicians violinist Henri Piccoli and pianist Marcelle Piccoli.
		Piccoli began his acting career in the theatre joining the Renault-Barrault theatre troupe in the 1940s.
	www.shef.ac.uk /f/frenchfilmstars/biogpiccoli.html (205 words)

	Je rentre Ã la maison DVD - Michael Weise Productions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A relatively short bitter sweet movie about an aging French actor, Michel Piccoli, who is nearing the end of his distinguished career when a tragic accident takes the lives of most of his family, except for one little boy whom he undertakes to look after.
		The stage is at the center of Valence's professional life (we see Piccoli also in scenes from "Ulysses" and "the tempest"), but between performances he accepts tv and film offers.
		Michel Piccoli's relaxed, nearly radiant performance is this film's "raison d'etre".
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B000060K1R (591 words)

	Ecran Noir - Michel Piccoli
		Michel Piccoli naît à Paris le 27 décembre 1925 dans une famille musicienne : une mère pianiste, issue d'une famille bourgeoise, et un père violoniste venant d'un milieu modeste.
		A cette époque, Piccoli croise le tout Saint-Germain-des-Prés et connaît Boris Vian, Jean-Paul Sartre et Juliette Gréco qui sera sa compagne pendant onze ans (ils se marient en 1967).
		Parce que Michel Piccoli est un de ces acteurs fidèles auquel les réalisateurs font souvent appel au fil des ans.
	www.ecrannoir.fr /stars/stars.php?s=262 (882 words)

	Amazon.com: Divertimento - La Belle Noiseuse: Video: Michel Piccoli,Jane Birkin,Emmanuelle Béart,Marianne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michel Piccoli (Le Doulos) delivers one of his finest, most lived-in performances as Edouard Frenhofer, a famous painter living with his artist wife Liz (Jane Birkin) on a spacious estate in the French countryside.
		Watch, especially, Piccoli, who is a veritable encyclopedia of the actor's art, as mesmerizing in his scudding, absent-minded movements as he is in his sudden precision, always surprising.
		Michel Piccoli as an aging painter Edouard Frenhofer, once famous and productive, Jane Birkin (Liz)- his much younger wife and a former favorite model, and Emmanuelle Béart as Marianne, the young, bright, and intensely intelligent woman whose presence awakened Frenhofer from semi-lethargy and made him want to paint again were unforgettable.
	amazon.com /Divertimento-Belle-Noiseuse-Michel-Piccoli/dp/6303386423 (2920 words)

	party
		Michel's a witty, impertinent seducer of women, who thrives on his wicked reputation, while she's an aging Greek actress, once famous for playing Electra, who is now Michel's lover.
		It is raining hard and Irene calls the rain insiduous, as Michel openly says he loves Leonor and she tells him she thought about him every day for the last five years.
		But I'm a big fan of Michel Piccoli and Irene Papas, and I found their performances to be stimulating--which is reason enough to see this art house film.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/party.htm (548 words)

	Coffee coffee and more coffee: Going Home with Michel Piccoli
		That Piccoli is in both films may also be appropriate considering that his career began just after World War II, and he has worked with several of the greatest filmmakers in French language cinema.
		For a film of its time, it is quite risque with a couple of scenes of semi-nudity as well as a couple of bedroom scenes, one of which shows that while Jean Gabin wore a nightshirt to bed, Maria Felix had nothing between her and the covers.
		If Piccoli's aging actor may be shaky in his performances, de Olivera displays a sureness of cinematic expression of a filmmaker at his peak.
	www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com /archives/2006/03/going_home_with_1.html (673 words)

	Michel Piccoli News
		Beauty and evil, madness and liberation, the sins and indiscretions of the bourgeoisie--these are among the main themes of Luis Bunuel's great, gorgeous "Belle de Jour." This landmark 1967 film, with Catherine...
		When Michel Piccoli lighted up, audiences were riveted.
		It was a magic moment, this gesture of a man behind a veil of smoke, a rogue in love or on the run, a sinister killer, or a contemptible bourgeois caught...
	www.topix.net /who/michel-piccoli (422 words)

	Michel Piccoli - Films as Actor:, Film as Actor and Director:
		Further perspectives on Piccoli's range are found in parts requiring a more reflective, detached, and experienced view of the world.
		In roles reflecting the sardonic, self-critical mood of the 1960s and 1970s Piccoli risked his established image by appearing in fiercely satirical and often scandalous films exposing the materialism, authoritarianism, gluttony, sexual depravity, and cupidity of contemporary society.
		Among Piccoli's most successful depictions of human complexity must rank his role in Bellochio's Salto nel vuoto as the apparently balanced, humane judge who in private is withdrawn, depressive, and despotic.
	www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-Oa-Pl/Piccoli-Michel.html (1799 words)

	Prisma: Michel Piccoli
		Paviot spezialisiert sich auf Parodien des amerikanischen Trivial-Genrekinos und Piccoli ist schon bei seinem Kurzfilm "Terreur en Oklahoma" (1951) dabei, spielt bei ihm Frankensteins Monster in "Torticola contre Frankensberg" (1952), ist in "Saint-Tropez, devoir et vacances" (1952) mit von der Partie, ist der schöne Cowboy Tommy und G-man Slim Spring in "Chicago Digest" (1952).
		Piccoli ist groß, schlank und mit dreißig nicht mehr der Jüngste.
		Michel Piccoli war in zweiter Ehe (1966 - 1977) mit der Chansonette Juliette Greco, seit 1980 ist er in dritter Ehe mit Ludovine Piccoli verheiratet.
	www.prisma-online.de /tv/person.html?pid=michel_piccoli (828 words)

	Michel Piccoli - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		French leading man Michel Piccoli spent most of his time from 1945 through 1955 on the French stage, primarily with Theatre Babylone and the...
		He was born to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and...
		Michel Piccoli - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Michel Piccoli Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/michel-piccoli/56669/main (109 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: La Belle Noiseuse (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD: Michel Piccoli,Jane Birkin,Emmanuelle Béart,Marianne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ageing painter Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) has been living a more or less inactive life for a long time, not because his talent has actually become stale but because of a lack of courage to achieve his potential.
		The acting is high class all way through with Michel Piccoli conveying an impression of slowly awakening artistic skills, and Emmanuelle Béart embodying the young woman who harbours great frustration without having anyone against whom she can legitimately direct it and therefore all the more haunted by it.
		True, Beart does spend the majority of the film naked, but it is also true that this performance reveals a depth that she had previously only hinted at in her performance in "Manon des Sources" opposite Daniel Auteuil.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Belle-Noiseuse-REGION-NTSC/dp/B0001Y4LEQ (1115 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - De L'Amour - Plot Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michel Piccoli stars as an amorous dentist whose philandering seemingly knows no bounds.
		He is no sooner shooing such lovelies as Anna Karina and Elsa Martinelli out the back door than he is welcoming such "new blood" as Joanna Shimkus into his living room.
		When Shimkus demands a commitment, Piccoli runs home movies of his past girlfriends, insisting all the while that he has forgotten them and that Joanna is the only woman in his life.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/movie/55963/plot.jhtml (165 words)

	Portrait of the actor Michel Piccoli by Thomas Staedeli
		Who has seen the actor Michel Piccoli on the big screen will always have his forceful performance and his character head in their mind's eye.
		The young Michel Piccolil made his film debut at the age of 19 with Sortilèges“ (44), beside it he also played at the theater.
		Michel Piccoli was among others married with the actresses Eléonore Hirt and Juliette Gréco.
	www.cyranos.ch /sbpicc-e.htm (331 words)

	Amazon.com: La Passante du Sans-Souci: DVD: Romy Schneider,Michel Piccoli,Helmut Griem,Dominique Labourier,Gérard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her co-stars, Michel Piccoli,Helmut Grien, and Gerard Klein also add their wonderful talents to the film, and of course an appearance from Maria Schell is always welcome in any film.
		Taken in by Michele and Elsa Wiener, he becomes like a son to them.
		Michele sends Elsa and Max to Paris, and promises to be with them soon.
	www.amazon.com /Passante-du-Sans-Souci-Romy-Schneider/dp/B00004VYCV (753 words)

	Je rentre à la maison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his introduction, Oliveira films most of Piccoli from behind, his back to the camera — a technique both jarring (depriving us of seeing the star) and informative (recognized and respected, the star owes nothing to us).
		It also distances the viewer from Piccoli’s character, a man equally aloof from the people in his life.
		As the present becomes their past, the characters regress into primitivism, questing for “home.” In Je rentre à la maison, Michel Piccoli’s actor has found where home is, wisely choosing rest over performance, a primitive in a world rushing to nowhere.
	home.comcast.net /~barbetschroeder/Je-rentre-a-la-maison.html (1779 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: I'm Going Home
		After a performance in Ionesco's Exit the King, Gilbert Valence (the great Michel Piccoli) discovers that his entire family (minus his grandson) has been killed in a car crash.
		He is an aging actor, friendly to his admirers (he is frequently seen signing autographs) and careful when making important choices.
		Too young for a role in the aforementioned action film and too old for the part of Buck Mulligan in a screen adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses (directed by John Malkovich's John Crawford), Gilbert not only becomes a victim of typecasting but a slave to his mortality.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=209 (348 words)

	Amazon.com: Party: DVD: Michel Piccoli,Irene Papas,Leonor Silveira,Rogério Samora,Sofia Alves,Manoel de Oliveira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The intriguing guests are an older unmarried couple, the philosophical and observant Irene, and Michel, a roué;.
		As the party wears on, Leonor finds herself pursued by Michel, an aging lothario with power and a razor sharp wit.
		Michel Piccoli as Michel, Irene Papas as Irene, Leonor Silveira as Leonor, Rogério Samora as Rogério, Sofia Alves as Rapariga, Michel Piccoli as Michel, Irene Papas as Irene, Leonor Silveira as Leonor, Rogério Samora as Rogério, Sofia Alves as Rapariga...
	www.amazon.com /Party-Michel-Piccoli/dp/B00005B6KB (789 words)

	Amazon.com: The Woman in Blue: DVD: Michel Piccoli,Lea Massari,Michel Aumont,Amarande,Geneviève Fontanel,Fabienne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mario Piccoli plays a musicologist who is irresistible to woman and chases la grande inconnue all over Paris.
		Piccoli plays a narcissistic man who makes all the woman in this movie look ridiculous and who solves his problems ultimately with sleeping tablets.There are dreams and flash backs which confuse this story of an obsession.You must love veteran actor Piccoli very much to enjoy this DVD.
		Michel Deville - Director, Léo L. Fuchs - Writer, Léo L. Fuchs - Producer (producer)...
	www.amazon.com /Woman-Blue-Michel-Deville/dp/B00008K797 (611 words)

	Salon \| "Contempt"
		"Contempt" ("Le Mepris") links the dissolution of the marriage between a screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot) to the end of classical Hollywood moviemaking, represented here by a film of "The Odyssey" directed by Fritz Lang (the director of "Metropolis" and "M," who appears as himself).
		Paul Javel (Piccoli), a promising young French writer, is courted by Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance), a brash, vulgar American producer, to rewrite the screenplay for Lang's film.
		Paul and his young wife, Camille (Bardot), visit the studio one day, and Prokosch invites them to his home for a drink.
	www.salon.com /july97/entertainment/contempt970704.html (1143 words)

	I'm Going Home (2001): Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich - PopMatters Film Review
		At times, the strict dictates of formal filmmaking place movies in one of two camps: those with brains and those with hearts.
		The storyline, such as it is, serves as a vehicle for the gentle exploration of everyday life and, in turn, everyday death, in Paris: tiny café coffee cups, and elegant wingtip shoes, and satisfying newspapers, and the Eiffel Tower lit up as if by magical fairy-lights.
		This is the Paris of Gilbert Valance (the magnificent Michel Piccoli), an aging actor who finds out in the first scene that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have all been killed in a terrible accident.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/i/im-going-home.shtml (1044 words)

	Agnes Varda - Agnès Varda - Professor of Film and Documentaries - Filmography and Bibliography
		Producer Dominique Vignet, Editor Hugues Darmois, Cinematographer Eric Gautier, Starring Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Emmanuel Salinger, Anouk Aimée, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romane Bohringer, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Claude Brialy, Patrick Bruel, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve and others.
		Starring Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Véronique Duval and others.
		Starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck, Marie-France Mignal, Britta Pettersson, Ursula Kubler, Jea nne Allard and others.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/agnesvarda.html (992 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Jean-Luc Godard: Contempt (1963)/Criterion DVD 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Contempt (Le Mépris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot) as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey.
		The colors are primary: yellows, reds, and blues which emphasize the stark contrast offered by the scenario.
		The central scene of the movie is a 30-minute dialogue of Beckettian impoverishment between the writer, Paul (Michel Piccoli), and his wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot).
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/godard/contempt.html (576 words)

	Michel Piccoli
		Piccoli gained prominence in the following decades with roles as sophisticated bourgeois types in films by Bunuel, Hitchcock and Chabrol.
		He has since cemented his reputation as one of France's most prolific and acclaimed performers, working through the 1990s with directors including Bertrand Tavernier ("Spoiled Children" 1977), Louis Malle ("Atlantic City" 1980) and Leos Carax ("Bad Blood" 1986)....
		The Last Woman - (Michel / / Released / Sony Pictures Releasing)
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/193003 (1550 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: La Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento [1991]: Video: Michel Piccoli,Jane Birkin,Jacques Rivette,Emmanuelle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A painter becomes inspired by a new model.
		Jacques Rivette’s award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled ‘La Belle Noiseuse’ (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin).
		When he encounters the beautiful and fascinating Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), he is inspired to return to the unfinished canvas, using her as his new model.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Belle-Noiseuse-Divertimento-Michel-Piccoli/dp/B00004CMCD (1163 words)

	Contempt - Drama Movies
		To show this Godard leaves many things unsaid in the film, only recognizable by body language.
		He begins the film with a very wordy but unemotional profession of desire between the two main characters Camille (Brigitte Bardot) and Paul (Michel Piccoli).
		Shortly after, Paul makes one crucial decision that begins the unraveling of his marriage to Camille.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art42623.asp (555 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reviews for Vincent, Francois, Paul & Othe: Video: Claude Sautet,Yves Montand,Michel Piccoli,Serge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Starring: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli Director: Claude Sautet
		If you're a fan of Yves Montand & Michel Piccoli (as I am), you'll be happy you got this movie.
		A bitter-sweet story of middle-aged pals who all have disappointments/troubles but manage to hang together inspite of the life changes that threaten to pull them apart.
	amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/video/1572524340/customer-reviews (133 words)

	Michel Piccoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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