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Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui formed one of the most emblematic couples in French cinema. The actress and director recently published a first book entitled “The Size of Our Breasts” and revealed to “Madame Figaro” magazine why writing the book was initially compromised, although she eventually found the courage to move forward.
Agnès Jaoui: this vital gesture that she thought she could no longer do after the death of Jean-Pierre Bacri
died in January 2021 at the age of 69. A major figure in French cinema and theater, the actor, screenwriter and author was known for his roles imbued with irony and humanity. In duo with Agnès Jaoui, he wrote works like A family resemblance or The Taste of Othersmixing humor and social criticism. Awarded several Césars during his career, he left a unique mark through his sincerity and his incisive view on society. He lived between 1987 and 2012 “great story” of his life, as he described it, with the actress, his “soulmate”. Together they formed lboth on screen and in life. Their meeting dates back to the 1980s, when they were working in the theater world. Having become inseparable, they shared a common artistic vision centered on human stories, subtle and imbued with realism. Their collaboration took off with films like Kitchen and Outbuildings (1993) et A family resemblance (1996), adapted from their own plays.
Despite their separation in 2012, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui have maintained a strong professional bond. The actress also confided to Paris Match the same year: “I think love can last, but it doesn’t have to be a failure if the story ends. Especially when people continue to love each other in a certain way.”. Interviewed by our Madame Figaro sisters about his work entitled “The size of our breasts”, published by Editions Grasset in September 2024, Agnès Jaoui admitted that after the death of Jean-Pierre Bacri in 2021, she was afraid of no longer being able to write. “From my first diary, at the age of 11, to film and play scripts, I never stopped writing. But after with whom I have always shared my pen, I was distraught. I didn’t know if I was going to make it again…”she admitted. She finally succeeded brilliantly in taking up her pen again thanks to this book project which evokes her childhood.
Agnès Jaoui rediscovers the pleasure of writing
“The project for this first book (…) seemed obvious to me. A sort of gentle, pleasant interlude, which allowed me to console myself for a while. I liked to remember, to reflect on what had changed, counted, surprised, traumatized, betrayed”The story? “We were three friends, coming from completely different backgrounds. I came from Sarcelles, Isabelle from America, and Cécile from rue Poliveau. We were seven years old when we met at the school on rue Buffon, and we together we discovered the boys, the transformation of our bodies, the other’s point of view, and the infinite comfort of friendship. It is this story that I wanted to tell, with Cécile’s drawings. painter whom I admire and who, like Isabelle, is still my dear friend, more than fifty years after our meeting”, we read on the back cover.
For the first time therefore, to look back on tender but sometimes hard memories of his childhood. A very pleasant exercise according to his words: “Beyond being vital, writing seems to me to be the best way to take a step back from life. To put down somewhere what is happening to us, and to come back to it if necessary over time or emotions. Because memories transform everything, giving us the good part in general, and thus making us forget the details of the most difficult moments.. And to conclude with this analysis: “Putting everything down on paper, the good and the bad, undoubtedly has therapeutic virtues. I like everything about writing, especially the fact that it takes time.”.
