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French actor Auteuil likes his roles nasty

Chicago Sun-Times | April 18, 1997 | Copyright
NEW YORK If you're in the market for a dysfunctional Frenchman, look no further than Daniel Auteuil, misfit actor extraordinaire.

Forget that his co-stars have been some of the most beautiful actresses in France - Isabelle Adjani, Emmanuelle Beart and Catherine Deneuve among them. Auteuil's filmography for the last decade reads like a case study in romantic ineptitude and downright heartlessness.

Remember the bungling peasant Ugolin in "Jean de Florette"? That was Auteuil's Ugolin who helped kill off a neighbor so he could use the land to harvest carnations. How about the…

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