Nicolas Bedos’ world partly collapsed in May 2020. In the space of four days, the 42-year-old filmmaker lost two men who held a prominent place in his life as a man but also in his life as a man. artist.
On May 20, 2020, his dad Guy Bedos passed away at the age of 85, after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years. Nicolas Bedos helped him to leave with dignity. On May 24 of the same year, his godfather Jean-Loup Dabadie left at the age of 81. President of the jury of the 3rd edition of the Cineroman Festival which takes place until today in Nice, Nicolas Bedos was happy to be able to salute the memory and the work of the one he considered as his “second artistic father” during of this event lived with his partner, Pauline Desmonts. Two of Jean-Loup Labadie’s films were screened at the Cinémathèque de Nice on Friday, October 22, 2021, Vincent, François, Paul … and the others and then Things of life. Two works produced by Claude Sautet and scripted by Jean-Loup Dabadie.
During an interview with Nice morning, produced during this third day of the Cineroman Festival – which honors films adapted from novels – Nicolas Bedos confided in the death of his godfather who preceded that of his father. “I had a double mourning since Jean-Loup and my father died three days apart. I experienced it in a very masochistic way. I watched a lot of videos, etc …“, explains the one who spent four months on the Côte d’Azur for the shooting of his next film Masquerade, the release of which is announced for November 2, 2022. This approach “masochistic“had a purpose:”I wanted to explain to my partner who these people really were. I needed her to understand why I was crying. She knew most of the songs written by Jean-Loup, without necessarily knowing that they were his.“It is supported by his companion, Pauline, that he had attended the mass in homage to his godfather, their first appearance together. It had been celebrated in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in Paris, in September 2020. It is in this same church called “of the artists” that the homage to Guy Bedos took place on June 4 of the same year.
During this interview, Nicolas Bedos also remembered a tender memory, when his godfather came to the family home in Corsica. “He shut himself up all afternoon to write, that intrigued me. I was one of those very curious kids, I wanted how it worked“, he shared. This passion for writing undoubtedly comes from there …