Overview

A portrait of Gérard Blain, actor and film-maker, an unclassifiable artist, a lard-head and a free spirit. This documentary, packed with eyewitness accounts and archive footage, looks back at his brief career as an actor, his stormy relationship with the Nouvelle Vague and his uncompromising work as a filmmaker. Above all, it paints the portrait of a man with an irreducible character who claims to have always hated adults and their cynicism, ever since his damaged childhood.

Top Cast

Gérard Blain

Self (archives) - director, subject

Olivier Assayas

Self - director, critique

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Michel Cieutat

Self - actor

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Paul Blain

Mia Hansen-Løve

Self - director

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Michel Marmin

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Emmanuel Machuel

Self - director of photography

John Wayne

Self (archive)