Queen of the comic with her friends from the Splendid troupe, the French actress Josiane Balasko started in the cinema in the early 70s, but in which film?
We no longer present Josiane Balasko, who made his debut on the boards, which holds three César (including two of honor) and who was appointed four times to the César of the best actress in a main role or a supporting role. If she is well known for her roles with the Splendid, it is certain that her solo career, if you know it badly, deserves all your attention, as an actress and director.
But have you ever seen his very first film?
She appears in a silent role in front – all the same – to Jean -Paul Belmondo then already a big show. This comedy is called Doctor Popaul (1972), and it is directed by Claude Chabrol. We follow a seducer doctor finding himself immobilized and powerless following an accident and remembers his past as a petticoat.
Do you recognize it?
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This actress wearing glasses in a field is well Josiane Balasko, then aged 21. She has about 10 seconds of presence on the screen, in a role not necessarily easy, that of “a ugly woman” as indicated in the credits.
Just before this sequence, Doctor Paul Simay (Bébel) made a bet with his friends: everyone takes a photo of their conquests for a year, and the one who slept with the ugliest won a tidy sum. Balasko is one of those ugly women that the doctor seduces by challenge.
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Doctor Popaul will total 2 million admissions in France. A correct score for Belmondo but the greatest success of the career of director Claude Chabrol.
And after Doctor Popaul?
At the time of filming, Balasko had already written the shows When I am tall, I will be paranoidThen The pipelette no longer pipsthat she played Maryse Frenkel in the early 1970s. After the death of the latter, she grafted the Splendid theater troupe that she already frequented and knew with them the success on stage just like with the Bronzés in 1978.
She will continue her career with them but will also be one of the first to stand on her own two feet, especially with regard to writing. She creates the dialogues back in force by Jean-Marie Poiré in 1980 and the following year, wrote the adaptation of next year … If all goes well then co-signs with Poiré the scenario of men prefer the big ones.
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Then begins a rich career as a screenwriter, then a director who begins with bag of knots (1985), followed by the Keufs (1987). Among other things, the famous cursed lawn and a great cry of love, or half-sister (2013) will come,, its latest staging.
In parallel, she will continue to play as an actress in the cinema and the theater, winning a César for the cursed lawn script (co-written with suchche Boorman), an honor César in 2000 and a César Anniversaire with the Splendid troupe.
