Jacques Audiard doesn’t like Les Tontons flingueurs

The classic written by his father Michel Audiard returns this evening on France 2, just as it celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Before Nice gesturethe cinema show presented by Pierre Lescure, France 2 will broadcast this weekend The Gunslingers, at 9:10 p.m. A film released precisely on October 27, 1963.

We no longer present this story of a will which triggers a clan war among the “tontons” of George Lautner. A great classic of French cinema, this last part of the trilogy inspired by the noir novels ofAlbert Simoni celebrates the humor and language of a straight-talking era thanks to cult dialogues signed Michel Audiard. However, at the exit of Dheepanduring the summer of 2015, his son Jacques Audiard revealed during an interview with The Express that he did not like this film, although it was very popular with the public. The Gunslingers had attracted more than 3 million spectators to the cinema in 1963 and since then, each television broadcast has been a success.

Buffet Froid (with Gérard Depardieu and Bernard Blier) narrated by Bertrand Blier

“Above all, he passed on to me his love of books,” explained the director. “I had the chance to work as a screenwriter with my father on a few films in the 1980s, including Deadly hike, in 1983. They were great times but they were too short. I discovered, afterwards, his work from the 1950s and 1960s. I do not like Uncle gunslingers, but I have a lot of admiration for his collaborations with Gilles Grangierlike Old Men Or The cellar is rebelling. I like his work on fairly realistic cinema, in a somewhat Simenonian atmosphere.”

Gilles Grangierthanks to whom he meets Jean Gabin and with whom he collaborated on 17 films, is a determining filmmaker in the career of Michel Audiard. But it is nevertheless the dialogues of the films of George Lautner that his name remains most often associated in popular consciousness: Barbouzes, Dandelions by the root and especially, The gunslinging unclespopular comedy with Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Jean Lefebvre, Venantino Venantini…became cult over time.

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If The uncles cannot sum up the immense career of Michel Audiard who (finally) won the César for best screenplay for Jail in 1982 from Claude Miller and made the salt of the filmsHenri Verneuil, Christian-Jaque, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Deray Or Philippe de Brocawe liked his “need to make sentences”.