Habib, The Big Adventure: Catherine Deneuve stars as Catherine Deneuve in must-see comedy

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Habib is a young actor who dreams of theater and cinema, but only plays small roles. His family finds it difficult to understand this passion, which does not bring him a single penny. Until the day he got the role of Little Gigolo opposite Catherine Deneuve. This is the beginning of a great adventure, but also the beginning of trouble…

Adventure Adventure

After a photographer (Les Convoyeurs present), a journalist (Cowboy) or a football agent (Les Rayures du zebre), Benoît is the protagonist of the fifth Marriage feature film. And he is not played by his compatriot Benoit Poelvorde, who has starred in almost all of his previous films, but by Bastien Ughetto, a rising figure in French cinema with a decade of experience under his belt.

Discovered thanks to Dans la maison de François Ozon, he then distinguished himself with Mads Mikkelsen (Michael Koolhaas), Omar Sy (Le Chant du loup), Albert Dupontel and Virginie Efira (Adieu les cons) or, more recently, Fabrizio Luchin and Catherine Frot (happy man). Dimensions we now have to add Catherine Deneuve. in his own role.

This is not the first time that the French icon has done this in fiction, as it was already the case in the film Anything Can Happen, Absolutely Fabulous or Miss War, where she shared a vocal cameo. His presence in Habib, The Great Adventure is quite small but crucial to the hero’s journey.

“We spend too much time on what we are not”– he told her during the exchange in the car. And this line captures well the suffering of his interlocutor, a young man torn between his origins, his aspirations and what others expect of him, be it his family or the director (Thomas Soliveres), in which he has to portray Saint-François d’Assisi.

It should be noted that the film also sometimes hesitates between several directions. Between the satire of the middle show and the initiation journey that feels like a fairy tale. But the presence and aura of Catherine Deneuve has a positive effect on him. “A woman doesn’t love you, love her in the cinema. With a capital C”They tell a reluctant Habib about the idea of ​​playing gigolo.

And the feature film expands the conversation in a very beautiful scene, where it connects with great subtlety and modesty the umbrellas of Cherbourg and the life of one of the secondary characters of the story. Habib still remains at the heart and front of the screenplay, but it’s in these moments, and when he finds himself in the world of cinema, that this comedy is at its strongest.