La face cachée de l'homme en noir
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La face cachée de l'homme en noir

6.8 / 10 2025 1h 39mNR French
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Storyline

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 & Crew

Audrey Crespo-Mara

Audrey Crespo-Mara

Self (Thierry Ardisson's wife) : Interviewer

Lead
Thierry Ardisson

Thierry Ardisson

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

Manon Ardisson

Manon Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed

Ninon Ardisson

Ninon Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's daughter) : Interviewed

Gaston Ardisson

Gaston Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's son) : Interviewed

Patrick Ardisson

Patrick Ardisson

Self (Thierry Ardisson's brother) : Interviewed

Catherine Barma

Catherine Barma

Self (Thierry Ardisson's producer) : Interviewed

Anne Méaux

Anne Méaux

Self (Thierry Ardisson's friend) : Interviewed

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Audrey Crespo-Mara's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. La face cachée de l'homme en noir is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker