In Born to Play, the unfiltered confessions of Pierre Arditi

« Playing is my life ! » It's difficult to contradict Pierre Arditi, who has been on stage since the end of the 1960s with energetic consistency. This life, however, is not a long, quiet river. This is evidenced by the biography that he helped to create from the pen of our colleague Nathalie Simon. It is the clear result of the sum of long interviews with the person concerned and with those who worked with him.

The actor engages with rare generosity, not avoiding the pitfalls of a singular journey, looking with nostalgia but lucidity through the viewfinder. Behind the popular actor, he has not forgotten the clumsy young actor who searched for himself for a long time. Stupid appearance, tart voice and inadequate posture, he judges while looking at photos of himself in his early days…

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