
La face cachée de l'homme en noir
Documentary · History
Overview
You've seen him interview Mikhail Gorbachev, Angelina Jolie, Robbie Williams, Mariah Carey, Brad Pitt, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro... You know him, but you don't really know him. Everyone has talked about Ardisson without ever getting close to the truth about him. My ambition: to reveal the man behind the costume of "The Man in Black." I thought to myself: if anyone can figure him out, it's me, a journalist and portraitist who has lived with him for 15 years. Who is the private Thierry behind the spectacular Ardisson? What we discover is how much Ardisson's personal history reflects the eras he has lived through, their contradictions, their utopias, their excesses, their violence. Like so many facets of a man and of society at the turn of the century.
Top Cast


Audrey Crespo-Mara
Audrey Crespo-Mara
Self (Thierry Ardisson's wife) : Interviewer
Audrey Crespo-Mara
Self (Thierry Ardisson's wife) : Interviewer


Thierry Ardisson
Thierry Ardisson
Self (Audrey Crespo-Mara's husband) : Interviewed
Thierry Ardisson
Self (Audrey Crespo-Mara's husband) : Interviewed


Manon Ardisson
Manon Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed
Manon Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed


Ninon Ardisson
Ninon Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed
Ninon Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed


Gaston Ardisson
Gaston Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's son) : Interviewed
Gaston Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's son) : Interviewed


Patrick Ardisson
Patrick Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's brother) : Interviewed
Patrick Ardisson
Self (Thierry Ardisson's brother) : Interviewed


Catherine Barma
Catherine Barma
Self (Thierry Ardisson's producer) : Interviewed
Catherine Barma
Self (Thierry Ardisson's producer) : Interviewed


Anne Méaux
Anne Méaux
Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed
Anne Méaux
Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed


Laurent Baffie
Laurent Baffie
Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed
Laurent Baffie
Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed


Philippe Corti
Philippe Corti
Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed
Philippe Corti
Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed
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