La face cachée de l'homme en noir (2025)

6.8/10 99 min 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.

Cast

Audrey Crespo-Mara

Self (Thierry Ardisson's wife) : Interviewer

Thierry Ardisson

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

Manon Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed

Ninon Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed

Gaston Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's son) : Interviewed

Patrick Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's brother) : Interviewed

Catherine Barma

Self (Thierry Ardisson's producer) : Interviewed

Anne Méaux

Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed

Laurent Baffie

Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed

Philippe Corti

Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed

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