The singer, before causing a “Bruelmania with his songs in the 1980s and 1990s, began his career as an artist in front of the camera. A look back at the notable films of the man who dreamed of becoming a French Al Pacino.
Patrick Bruel, who is today indicted after complaints from numerous women for rape and sexual violence, is often presented, above all, as a successful singer. But before hitting hit after hit in the mid-1980s (Fed up with this girl in 1984, Break your voice 1989…), he especially dreamed of becoming a known and recognized actor.
Alexandre Arcady gives him his first chance in his film Sirocco’s Coup (1979), a fresco on the exodus of the Narboni family at the end of the Algerian war. Bruel plays the youngest child Paulo Narboni, a teenager nostalgic for a country and a lost childhood. He reveals himself to himself. The budding actor, who places the saga, also a family one, Godfather by Coppola, – in the good and bad sense of the term – in the firmament of the seventh art perhaps imagines himself becoming at this moment the French Pacino or Brando, his idols. Patrick Bruel shot 5 films with Arcady. Besides Sirocco’s Couphe played in The Great Carnival (1983)
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