{"id":9479,"date":"2009-07-15T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2010-06-29T20:17:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T00:17:35","slug":"frana%c2%a7ois-truffaut-on-michel-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9479","title":{"rendered":"Francois Truffaut on Michel Simon:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michel_simon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/michel_simon.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Watching Michel Simon, moviegoers have always felt that they were not just watching an actor play a role, but watching the actor himself.  His best roles were double roles: Boudu [in <em>Boudu sauv\u00c3\u00a9 des eaux<\/em>] is both a vagrant and a child discovering life; P\u00c3\u00a9re Jules in Vigo&#8217;s <i>L&#8217;Atalante<\/i> is a frustrated barge captain and a refined collector; Irwin Molyneux, the businessman of <i>Dr\u00c3\u00b4le de Drame<\/i>, secretly writes bloody novels; and to come back to [Jean] Renoir, Maurice Legrand in <i>La Chienne<\/i> is an insignificant and docile cashier but also, without knowing it, a great painter.  I am persuaded that filmmakers entrusted Simon with these difficult double roles &#8211; which he always played magnificently even when the films were weak &#8211; because they felt that this great actor incarnated life and the secret of life.  Jean Renoir was the first to make this truth evident.  When Michel Simon acts for us, we penetrate to the core of the human heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; From <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306805995?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0306805995\">The Films In My Life<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0306805995\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, by Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Truffaut<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Michel Simon, moviegoers have always felt that they were not just watching an actor play a role, but watching the actor himself. His best roles were double roles: Boudu [in Boudu sauv\u00c3\u00a9 des eaux] is both a vagrant and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}