“If I Talked About Him, I’d Get Chills”: The Best Scene in Cinema, for Benoit Poelvoorde, This Is It!

Three times nominated for a César for Best Actor (notably for his memorable interpretation of Claude Francois’s double on the podium), Benoit Poelvoorde, who launched his career sensationally 30 years ago with the caustic and provocative It Happened Close to Home. , gave us many memorable cinematic moments.

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Funny in Le Grand Bain or Le Boulet, touching in Les Emotifs Anonymes or Une Famille à rent, crazy in Le Grand Soir or Narco, this versatile Belgian actor helped shape our memories as viewers.

But what about his people? What films made him a hit on the big screen when he was in our shoes?

In 2010, when he was at our microphone, we asked him this very question. Benoit Poelvoorde then spoke for us with the emotion of a masterful sequence taken from one of Martin Scorsese’s most famous feature films:

“It’s a scene from Raging Bull with De Niro, it’s the moment when he’s in jail. He’s arrested for drunkenness, where I don’t remember what, and he’s very, very fat and he’s banging on the walls crying. And we feel. That’s where he lets it all go.”– the actor told us.

“He says almost nothing and punches until he explodes, and the light comes out of the vent, it’s religious. For two hours we watch this guy fight with himself, who is his worst enemy, and we have this. A moment of redemption where he makes himself cry. , allows to run. (…) It gives me chills to even talk about it.”

The scene in question, unusually played by Robert De Niro, takes place at the end of the feature film, after the divorce and arrest of Jake LaMotta, and before the film’s shocking conclusion.

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