Alexis Michalik

Michalik's screen credits and his reputation belong to two different people. In France he is a playwright and director of the theatre, the writer of Le Porteur d'histoire, Le Cercle des illusionnistes, Edmond and Intra Muros, and the author of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled R & J. That body of work has won him Moliere awards. Very little of it appears on a filmography.

On screen he is a working supporting actor with an appealing lack of vanity about it. Second SNLE-B2R in the submarine thriller The Wolf's Call. An artist with a tambourine in At Eternity's Gate. Villeneuve de Radis across both parts of the recent Three Musketeers. Louis de Rohan in Versailles, Damien in Kaboul Kitchen, Christophe in Dangerous Liaisons, Victor in A Mermaid in Paris, Olivier de Kersauson in Flo. These are one or two scene parts, taken in good films and ordinary ones alike.

The place where the two careers touch is Cyrano, My Love, a film about the frantic weeks in which Edmond Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac, and the same subject as his stage play Edmond. He appears in it as Georges Feydeau. If you want to understand what he actually does, that is where to look: the theatre is the work, and the film is the theatre finding a bigger room.