Jean-Claude Brialy, one of my Nouvelle Vague faves, is dead. Since the good folks at ScreenGrab have already posted clips of some of his best-known work—in Une Femme est Une Femme and Claire's Knee—I'll offer this one, from Serge Gainsbourg's wacky 1967 TV musical, Anna. In it he argues, and smokes, with Gainsbourg before getting down to some serious boogieing. Party on, monsieur.
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