2023-10-11 19:34:55
Half of the famous friendly pair in “Jules et Jim” by François Truffaut in 1962, the actor, who died Monday October 9 at the age of 92, had a rather discreet career, particularly in the theater.
For posterity, he is and will remain Jim in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim, the story of a lasting friendship in the 1900s between a Frenchman and an Austrian (Oskar Werner), in love with the same woman – Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). . Henri Serre died on October 9 at the age of 92. We ultimately know little about this discreet man who was a cabaret singer in the 1950s performing on the left bank of Paris with his friend Jean-Pierre Suc.
“Jules et Jim is a love novel in telegraphic style, written by a poet who strives to make people forget his culture and who aligns words and thoughts like a laconic and concrete peasant would do,” said François Truffaut. The filmmaker bought by chance the late book by Henri-Pierre Roché who was 73 years old when he published it in 1953, giving a romantic version of a complex and identical personal story involving the German writer Franz Hessel and his wife Helen Grund . Truffaut’s choice for Henri Serre was apparently due to the physical resemblance between the actor and the author of the book in his youth. The actress, Liliane David, passing through the set of Jules et Jim in May 1961, told Libération: “It was complicated because everyone was in love with Jeanne Moreau: the co-producer Raoul Lévy, Henri Serre, François [Truffaut] obviously. He was literally fascinated by her. The atmosphere was at times euphoric and at times very painful, almost tragic.” The song Le Tourbillon, written and composed by Serge Rezvani, sung by Jeanne Moreau, will be the definitive refrain of this three-way love story: “We knew each other, we recognized each other / We lost sight of each other , we lost sight of each other / We found each other again, we warmed up / Then we separated.”
The same year, Henri Serre plays Paul, the printer of Alain Cavalier’s Combat dans l’île with whom Anne (Romy Schneider) falls in love. And he has a small role in the will-o’-the-wisp by Louis Malle with Maurice Ronet, the wandering of a suicidal man in Paris, adapted from a novel by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, a film regularly revisited for its dark aura, whether by Joachim Trier (who made the remake in Oslo, August 31) or recently by Justine Triet, who cited it as one of her favorite films.
Curiously, Serre does not continue his journey alongside the authors of the New Wave, multiplying the risky choices between Atout coeur à Tokyo for OSS 117 by Michel Boisrond or Private club for informed couples by Max Pécas. During this same period, he seemed to invest more in his taste for the theater, playing Shakespeare, Hugo, Claudel… He made an appearance with Manoel de Oliveira in the Satin Shoe in 1985, the only notable mention of a completely gone film. gimlet. At the same time, he scoured the sets of French series and television films, including the title role in Moi, général de Gaulle by Denys Granier-Deferre in 1990.
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