Continuation of the best dupontel on CANAL +: after colors of fire, what casting Mirror of our sorrows?

Louise: Adele Exarchopoulos

Granddaughter of Edouard Pericourt in Peace Up There – Played by Heloise Balster in Albert Dupontel’s film – Louise has grown up well in the mirror of our sorrows. Having become a teacher, the orphan is now a young woman who plays the lead role in the latest novel. It is he who opens it, in a scene where he runs naked and traumatized through the streets of Paris under German bombs.

Determined, fragile, moving, combative, sensitive and very sensual at the same time, Louise can be interpreted by Adele Exarchopoulos, who has repeatedly demonstrated the strength and versatility of her acting.

Mr. Jules: Bowly Lenners

A poorly groomed bear with a physique as impressive as his tenderness and a heart in his hand that he tries to hide behind a gruff personality…: It’s hard to see anyone but boolly laners beyond this description.

Known to French audiences thanks to Olivier Brun’s blues in Hippocrates, before winning all the accolades in La Nuit du 12, the Belgian actor blended perfectly into the costume of this Montmartre bistro owner and confidant of Louise.

Gabriel: Bastien Ughetto

Currently on the poster for Un coup de maître (just next to Bouli Lanners), seen in Paris Police 1905 or Adieu les cons, Bastien Ughetto seems like the perfect choice to interpret Gabriel in the Mirror of Our Sorrows. The latter is a disciplined math teacher who lacks confidence but will have to dress up as a soldier. At first it is very uncomfortable, gradually he asserts himself in contact with Raul and, above all, he wins us over with his humanity.

Raoul: Raphael Cuenard

It’s hard to miss the phenomenon of Rafael Cuenar this 2023. He became the new face of French cinema after his exploits in Cut!, smoking coughs, November, Breakage dog, Cash and Yannick, and soon with Jonathan Cohen. In The Sentinel, the actor manages to strike his own touch between fragility, humor, and singularity, culminating in an apparently endearing joke.

A palette that perfectly suits Raoul’s character in The Mirror of Our Sorrows, a rebellious, reckless and brooding Gaul who drags Gabriel off to suffer in the army before becoming his brother at heart.

Desire: Vincent Lacoste

The anti-heroine of our Mirror of Sorrows and the comic force of the book, Désirée has this extraordinary elegance, this mystery and this lightness that reminds us of Vincent Lacoste. We can already see the actor doing everything in his way in the guise of this chameleon man, who pretends to be a priest who dismisses the crowd, a terrible civil servant or even a bar tenor.

Fernand: Pio Marmay

Described as a policeman who has to take escaped men from Paris to prisons, solid, righteous, conscientious and very expressive and driven by love for his sick wife, Fernand Pio would have been Marmai’s first choice. We can imagine that the actor perfectly blends the violent scenes and emotions as he knows how to bring out his powerful kindness on screen.