Monsieur Aznavour

Monsieur Aznavour (2024)

Timing: 2:14 (134 min)

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Release date

2024-10-23

Country

Belgium, France, Bulgaria

Production

TF1 Films Production, Pathé, Logical Content Ventures, Beside Productions, Kallouche Cinéma, Bulgarian National Film Center, Mandarin & Compagnie

Genre

History, Music, Drama

Budget

$28 000 000

Revenue

$16

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Director

Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade

Actors

Tahar Rahim, Bastien Bouillon, Marie-Julie Baup, Luc Antoni, Nicolas Chupin, Ella Pellegrini, Petra Silander, Camille Moutawakil, Tigran Mekhitarian, Hovnatan Avédikian
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Producer

Jean-Rachid Kallouche, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer

Operator

Brecht Goyvaerts

Composer

Varda Kakon

Artist

Valentin Curtet

Audition

Marie Ondarts

Editing

Laure Gardette
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• While preparing for filming, Tahar Rahim (who played the main character) lost weight. Before the start of each shooting day, he spent a lot of time in the makeup chair.
• The project was sponsored by Charles Aznavour himself (while he was alive), so Tahar Rahim had free access to the Aznavour family, which he used to talk to Aznavour's wife, his sister, and his children.
• Charles Aznavour personally chose Granaz Kor Malad and Mehdi Idir as the directors and screenwriters of the biopic. He passed away on the day a meeting was scheduled to discuss work on the project. Due to Aznavour's death, work on the project had to be postponed, and Malad and Idir temporarily turned to the comedy "School Life" (2019).
• Marie-Julie Bau decided not to rewatch Olivier Dahan’s drama “La Vie en Rose” (2007) before playing Édith Piaf. Instead, she took singing lessons and studied relevant materials (read interviews, listened to concert performances, etc.) for several months, and, like Tahar Rahim, spent long hours in the makeup chair at the beginning of each shooting day.
• Tahar Rahim sang himself in the film. Before filming, he specifically took vocal lessons and piano lessons, and also studied Aznavour’s body language for a long time.