Word: luchini
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fabrice Luchini arrives fashionably late for our lunch date at the Ritz bar. He is wearing a black sweatshirt, black trousers and a 24-hour stubble - a little touch of bohemian chic that stands out smartly among the designer suits and Hermès scarves...
...Typical. Luchini always seems like the odd man out - the box office success who prefers 400-seat theaters to megabudget films, the high-school dropout who knows all the great French literary classics by heart, the 21st-century movie star whose greatest passion is reciting the works of long-dead writers. If Gérard Depardieu is France's best-known actor today, Luchini is perhaps the most interesting...
...latest movie, "Barnie et ses Petites Contrariétés," currently number five on the French hit parade, is a hilarious farce about a mild-mannered boat designer caught in the crossfire between his wife, his girlfriend - and his boyfriend. But if films pay the bulk of Luchini's bills these days, he makes no secret about preferring the boards to celluloid. Balding, short of stature and, lately, getting a little paunchy around the waist, Luchini is nobody's idea of a classic matinee idol. But he has something almost no other actor possesses these days: a flawless elocution...