Jean-Pierre Bacri obituary
Jean-Pierre Bacri, pictured with Anne Alvaro in The Taste of Others (2000), ‘could mope and hope with equal conviction’. Photograph: AF archive/Alamy Any admirer of French cinema over the past 40 years will have developed a soft spot for the hangdog looks and gruff, rumpled charm of the actor Jean-Pierre Bacri, who has died aged 69 of cancer. In the tradition of Walter Matthau, he brought sympathetic comic shading to even the most irredeemable worrywart or miseryguts. His speciality was a saturnine impatience with life that was nonethele...
Source: theguardian.com