The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus (2021)

0.0/10 54 min Documentary

Overview

Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cinema, Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus has been dragging his inimitable drawl wherever he wants. Able to play the Diva for Michel Audiard as well as for Werner Herzog. Loubard one day for Gilles Béhat and Duke of Orleans the next day for Rohmer. We often met him with Mocky or Boisset, more mysteriously with Tommy Chong and remains permanently anchored in our memories thanks to his performance in Delicatessen or Marie's ads, depending on the genre. Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus is one of those marginal people, adventurers a bit crazy, often poet and above all a bon vivant, in short, a species on the way to extinction. The directors wanted to meet the character and remember this extravagant little life.

Cast

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Self

Werner Herzog

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Kinski

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Self (archive footage)

Recommendations

Daguerréotypes
Rich Hill
The Class of ‘92
Love, Gilda
In the Realms of the Unreal
John Candy: I Like Me
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Varda by Agnès
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Casting By
Murder by Contract
American Symphony
We Live in Public
Naqoyqatsi
My Mom Jayne
Love, Antosha
Black Widow
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
Directed by John Ford
To Be Takei