The party, Joséphine, guardian angel… This actor, deceased, had filmed in the Cotentin

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Jean-Michel Dupuis has just passed away at the age of 69 following a long illness.

When we talk about Jean-Michel Dupuis, we immediately think of the film The party by Claude Pinoteau, for which he played the role of Étienne, the friend of Vic’s father (Sophie Marceau) played by Claude Brasseur.

Many series

It is also found in Life is a novel by Alain Resnais, but also for Édouard Molinaro in Love in sweetness And Left when exiting the elevator or even with Claude Lelouch for Beware of the bandits And The beautiful story.

To the televisionhe was one of the supporting roles regularly on screen for many series as Josephine, guardian angelAlice Nevers: the judge is a woman or A woman of honor.

Far from the Parisian studios in June and July 1990he came after a thunderbolt from the director François Luciani who had fallen under the spell of Granville (Manche) and the North Cotentin.

He wanted his TV movie Our Juliet has as its setting the North Cotentin and more precisely the Saire ValleyLa Hague, Cherbourg at the Chantereyne Animation Center transformed for the occasion into gym and even the editorial staff of our newspaper The Channel Press.

The problem of divorced parents

At genericit was Véronique Jannot, Patrick Chesnais, Jennifer Covillault, Brigitte Chamarande and Jean-Michel Dupuis. Based on a script by Joëlle Goron and François Luciani, both funny and moving, this TV movie addressed, through the eyes of a child, the delicate problem of divorced parents.

Marie (Veronique Jannot), photographer in a local newspapermeets David (Jean-Michel Dupuis), also a photographer in the same newspaper, also divorced, which Vincent (Patrick Chesnais), novelist, and ex-husband of Marie, did not really appreciate.

Journalists as extras

Long sequences had been filmed in the newsroom of The Channel Presswhere a whole bunch of equipment, cameras, projectors, cables and sound recordings, traveling had been installed with the participation of the editorial team as extras.

Following its broadcast, Our Juliet had obtained several awards such as the 1991 Society of Authors Award and various awards at European meetings Reims televisions in 1991.

From our correspondent Philippe QUEVASTRE

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