“When you see adults do it, it’s funny”: Best scene in cinema, for Thierry Lhermitte, this is it!

Throughout his rich career, most notably with dozens of comedies, he has blown thousands of French audiences to their seats. From Bronze Skis, Diner de cons, Santa Claus is Trash or even Grandpa Resist, Thierry Lhermitte has given us a lot of laughs in cinema.

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But what are the works that inspired him? What sequence gave him the most beautiful emotions before he was on screen and still in the audience seat?

In 2016, when he came to talk to us about his film The New Life of Paul Snyder (in which a senior executive gives up everything to become a dog walker), Thierry Lhermitte agreed to tell us about his favorite scene.

A funny scene taken from the comedy My Dear Friends, directed by the Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli in 1976.

“There’s Philippe Noiret, there’s Tognatz, etc. and they all do stupid things, including the one that consists of going to the station platform”The actress explains with a sly smile on her lips.

“There’s a whole bunch of people standing at the window of the train going by and hitting people as it goes by. And the people can’t do anything because the train’s still going. And it’s very, very funny. (…) He is a good soul. A little grim without being too dark. It’s good-natured, it’s funny, and when you see adults doing it, it’s funny.”

This scene isn’t the only prank the characters do throughout the film, as the latter tells the story of five fifty-year-olds who remember their 400 moves together.

(Re)discover the trailer for ‘My Dear Friends’…