Daniel Auteuil

Ginette Vincendeau writes that Daniel Auteuil is filling a structure in The Girl on the Bridge: in the father-daughter fantasy subgenre the young woman is motherless and a big star plays her father, and here the star is Auteuil. The same actress's screen fatherhood had been taken by Gerard Depardieu, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo in other films. Vincendeau notes as well that it failed at the French box office in spite of its three-star status. Michael Witt writes that The Widow of Saint-Pierre is built on three striking faces and that Auteuil brings delicacy and an intense energy to his. Richard Falcon, for his part, counts his presence in The Lost Son a fault, turning the thing into a star vehicle. Two best actor Cesars stand to him, out of Jean de Florette and The Girl on the Bridge, while a third item, from La Belle Epoque, stayed a nomination. The two awards came at the ceremonies of 1987 and 2000.