Michel Piccoli (1925-2020)

On May 12, French theatre and film actor Michel Piccoli has passed away at the age of 94. In a career spanning more than 70 years and 200 films, Piccoli has worked with an extraordinary range of directors including Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Luís Buñuel, Alain Resnais, Jean-Pierre Melville, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol, Leos Carax, Louis Malle, Manoel de Oliveira, Raoul Ruiz and Alfred Hitchcock.

Images
Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Alain Resnais, 2012) (cover)
Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français (Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, 1995)
De l’amour (Jean Aurel, 1964)
Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
Piccoli in the projection booth of the Cinémathèque française screening Le mépris in 2008 © Nicolas Guilbert
Mauvais sang (Leos Carax, 1986)
Généalogies d'un crime (Raoul Ruiz, 1997)