funeral Thursday in Paris

Pay a final tribute to the actor. The funeral of Michel Blanc, who died on October 3 at the age of 72, will be held on Thursday October 10 at the Saint-Eustache church at 2 p.m., in the I^is district of Paris, according to information from TF1.

Family, loved ones, filmmaker and actor friends and even fans are expected to say goodbye to the actor, whose sudden death moved the country. Michel Blanc died during the night from Thursday to Friday following anaphylactic shock caused by a reaction to a medication. Many people have paid tribute to the interpreter of Jean-Claude Dusse, starting with his long-time friend, Gérard Jugnot. « It’s a huge blow. […] He was the French Woody Allen. He had an incredible sense of dialogue », he said on the microphone of RTL .

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The Spendid Troupe also wanted to pay tribute to their great friend. “ Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Bruno Moynot – join together with one voice to express their immense pain following the death of their friend and companion Michel Blanc », declared the actors, who formed the Splendid in 1974. “ The pain is immense, commensurate with his talent. In front of the camera of Bertrand Blier, Robert Altman or Pierre Schoeller, Michel Blanc will have amazed us with the variety of his acting, but also by his talents as a director », wrote the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati.

Films posthumes

Next year, the public will be able to discover the latest productions with Michel Blanc: The Backpacker directed by Philippe Mechelen with Christian Clavier and Hakim Jemili and The Cache by Lionel Baier, inspired by the novel by Christophe Boltanski.