Movie Quiz: If you score a 9/9, we’ll give you a Cesar!

He is one of our most celebrated actors, notably with 6 Best Actor César nominations, including a 2016 win for Stephane Briese’s The Law of the Market. Vincent Lyndon is back in theaters this week thanks to Nicolas Boucheriff, who offered him the lead role. role in his drama Comme un fils.

He plays a retired professor who meets a school dropout and is forced to steal to survive. Haunted by his history, she will do anything to help him, even if it means confronting those who are exploiting the young boy.

News that gives us the opportunity to present a quiz on Vincent Lyndon, fresh off the hit series D’argent et de Sang and recently announced to be casting the iconic Jean Valjean in a new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. In the meantime, here are some secrets from filming Comme un fils.

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Finding Victor in Romania

In search of the person who would play the young hero of the film, Nicolas Buchrif went to Romania to film some drama school students. Teenagers who decided to act before this film and for whom it would be a real possibility then. He recalls: “I met him there Stefan Virgil the Stoic Who spoke English very well but not French. Instead of teaching him to learn the language as well as possible and playing him with a caricature accent, I chose to communicate in English for my two characters.“

Stage

With an actor like Vincent Lyndon, a 15-year-old English-speaking teenager who had never made a film, and “real” Roma families, Nicolas Boucheriff avoided directing too rigidly: “I had to do the opposite there, i.e. let life express itself in every setting, watch my actors live the situations and adapt my staging to their performance and their movements.“

Time to play our quiz. Can you identify these 9 Vincent Lyndon movies?