Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Michel Piccoli on his birthday 🎂
📷 Sam Lévin
"Admirers of Michel Piccoli know better than to ignore any film, however slight, that is anchored and calmed by his presence."
- Anthony Lane

Michel Piccoli with Fritz Lang, Jack Palance & Jean-Luc Godard.
On the set of Godard's Le Mépris (Contempt), 1963. The still photographer on the set was Jicky Dussart.
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Jean-Luc Godard with Brigitte Bardot & Michel Piccoli, working on a bathroom scene for Le Mépris (Contempt), 1963. Cool to see how this is captured on film. That's the great cinematographer Raoul Coutard in the camera cut-out room.
Wonderful shots by Jean-Louis Swiners.

Jacques Demy on the set of Une Chambre en Ville, with Danielle Darrieux & Michel Piccoli
📷 Moune Jamet, 1982
One of my favourite Demy films.

One can only imagine the greatness of Michel Piccoli on stage. Here in Molière's Le Misanthrope, with Danièle Lebrun, at the Théâtre de la Ville, 1969
📷 Colette Masson

Michel Piccoli the activist, with Danièle Delorme & Suzanne Flon. "Operation Jéricho" was designed to force the government broadcaster ORTF to cover the May-June demonstrations.
📷 Jean Laborie, June 6, 1968
Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris

In another Jean Laborie shot from Operation Jéricho, Michel Piccoli shares an umbrella with Juliette Greco, who was his wife from 1966-77.

I loved Michel Piccoli & Danielle Darrieux so much in Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles De Rochefort. Two veterans who brought as much energy to their roles as the younger actors. And so much glamour, style & grace as well.
📷 Hélène Jeanbrau, 1967
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Michel Piccoli by Ludovic Carème
Piccoli was one of many great artists who died in 2020.