“I don’t know if it will pass now”: Benoit Polvorde confides in It Happened Near You and his important roles

Benoît Poelvoorde is back in cinemas this Wednesday, starring in Normale, the new film by Olivier Babin (Swagger, Poissonsexe).

After the series En place or the colors of fire of Clovis Cornillac on Netflix last fall, the actor filmed this film of the author with the young actor Justin Lacroix and invites us to discover him in a completely different role in his filmography. Talk about employment from there? Not at all like that! “This is the role of a mule“, shoots Tat Benoit Polvorde. It is a more dramatic register that gives us the actor, the role”impaired“As he says.

This film, inspired by David Greig’s play The Monster in the Hallway, tells the story of 15-year-old Lucy, a teenager with a full imagination. She lives alone with William, her father, who looks like a retarded teenager and is battling multiple sclerosis. Between college, a small job, and the burdens of everyday life, Lucy somehow manages and manages to write a whimsical autobiographical novel that moves between dream and reality… an announcement of a visit from a social worker to break this precarious situation. balance. Lucy and her father will have to redouble their ingenuity to create the illusion of a normal life…

We caught up with the comedian for a long podcast interview. An interview with his image, free, spontaneous and in which he tells us for the first time the reasons why he allowed himself to be tempted by this new auteur film, far from some big productions in which he was able to excel in the past.

The theme of these French “blockbuster” films is also mentioned on our microphone, right in the news, between the arrival of Asterix and the Three Musketeers. Then it’s time to talk about the cult film that recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, Benoit Polvorde’s first film, which happened near you. “I don’t know if it will pass now“He thinks about our microphone and agrees to comment on the film of this generation, which we always talk about a lot. To close this interview, it will be a matter of friendship, a word that is well suited to his choice and which crosses the filmography, upwards. Gilles Lelouch, with whom he is soon to film, after Narco and Le Grand Bain, for L’Amour ouf.

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Journalist: Bridget Baronet

Editing: Alexander Kuri