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By Loriane Cladec
January 17, 2022
The French comedian Michel Subor, seen in "The Little Soldier", "The Rebel" and even "The Intrusor", died on Monday. He was 86 years old.
Secret actor, "massive and impermeable" according to Claire Denis, appeared for Truffaut and Godard, but also at Hitchcock, a striking face on the big and small screen, Michel Subor succumbed to a car accident this Monday January 17, 2022, according to Le Monde . He was 86 years old.
VADIM, TRUFFAUT, GODARD...
Son of anti-Bolshevik Russian parents who emigrated to France, Michel Subor made his film debut alongside Louis De Funès (Mon pote le gitan , 1959) and gave the reply to Brigitte Bardot in La Bride sur le cou by Roger Vadim (1961).
He then surfed the New Wave by becoming the narrator of Jules et Jim (1962) by François Truffaut , and by playing Le Petit Soldat (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard . With André Cayatte (La Vie conjugale, 1964), he also tried his hand at more traditional cinema. Trying his luck abroad, he shot under the direction of Englishmen Clive Donner (What's New, Pussycat?, 1965) and Alfred Hitchcock, in the spy thriller L'Etau (1969).
BETWEEN TELEVISION AND CINEMA
During the 1970s, Michel Subor devoted himself mainly to television, making a name for himself in the series Mauregard (1970) and La Ligne de demarcation (1973) and the television films L'Oreille absolute (1972) and Sultan à vente (1974).
His cinematographic career finds a second wind thanks to Jean-Louis Bertucelli who directs him in turn in Doctor Françoise Gailland (1975), The Imprecator (1977) and Stress (1984). However, it was Gérard Blain who brought him out of oblivion by giving him a leading role in 1980, that of the homosexual promoter Beaufils, in Le Rebelle .
After a long journey through the desert, Michel Subor discreetly returned to auteur cinema at the end of the 1990s. Andrzej Zulawski called on him for the needs of La Fidélité (2000), while Philippe Garrel imagined as a tempting and evil demon in Sauvage innocence (2001).
"WE CALLED IT BRIBERY..."
Having directed him in Beau travail in 1999, Claire Denis remembers him as "a massive block, impermeable (...) And at the same time, he escaped us, he dreamed. He slipped into his own film as into a parallel universe. Between us, we called it "suboriser", according to the filmmaker's own words.
In 2004, Claire Denis worked with him again and made the septuagenarian actor The Intruder of her film. It is then necessary to wait five years before finding it in the cinema. In White Material (2009), he plays the owner of a coffee plantation in Africa, sharing the bill Finally in 2012, he returned to France for John Shank 's Last Winter , a film that deals with the peasant world with Vincent Rottiers in the title role. His last roles were for the small screen, in season 4 of Braquo (2016) and season 1 of Aux Animaux la guerre (2018).ith Isabelle Huppert .
SUBOR, Michel (Mischa Subotkiof)
Born: 2/2/1935, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Died: 1/17/2022, France
Michel Subor’s westerns – actor:
Dear Hunter – 2002 (Sam)
Voguons – 2013 (Louis)
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