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Philippe Noiret - actor

Interview - 59th Venice Film Festival

French actor attends the Festival to present Philippe Bladsband's film, Step by Step, selected for the critic's week

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by Federico Greco

After a three-year absence from cinema, dedicated instead to theatre, French actor Philippe Noiret attends the press conference to presents the film Un Honnête Commerçant (Step by Step) [+see also:
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by Philippe Blasband, selected for the critic's week at the 59th Venice Film Festival.
Philippe Noiret explains that as an actor he has no big principles to talk about, apart from the importance of reading the script and entering in the character's role.
Un Honnête Commerçant, the directorial debut of Belgian screenwriter Philippe Blasband, is a subtly ironic and occasionally cynical “noir” about a police investigation into the drugs trade.
Philippe Noiret plays Hubert Verkamen, a sophisticated drug dealer and cruel man whom the police suspect has committed a particularly nasty murder, until it gradually emerges that another Hubert Verkamen exists. A questioning, that becomes a sophisticated mind-game where fiction becomes reality, and vice-versa.
About accepting roles in numerous first-time films, the actor says "it is something I really enjoy. It gives me a great feeling of satisfaction to know that I must have done something right in my life, and young people are still interested in me".

Read the interviews:
- Philippe Noiret • Actor
- Philippe Blasband • Director

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