In 2018, Frank Dubosk directed his first feature film “All Stands”. More than 2.4 million viewers discovered that Patrick Chirac’s interpretation of the iconic camping saga had real directorial talent and great sensitivity.
With an average press rating of 3.6 stars and an average audience rating of 3.9, the romantic comedy, also directed by Alexandra Lammy, is the highest-rated film in Dubosk’s filmography to date. After his comedy Rumba la vie en 2022, the filmmaker returns today with Un Ours dans le Jura.
In this film, Michelle (Dubosky) and Cathy (Lauren Kalam), a couple worn down by time and financial difficulties, don’t really speak to each other again until Michelle, trying to avoid a bear on the road, crashes into a car, killing the two occupants, 2 dead in the trunk and 2 million second-hand, It clearly prompts you to talk again and, above all, to be silent.
With this feature film he co-wrote with Sarah Kaminski, Frank Dubosky switches register and delivers a dark comedy that leans toward thriller for the first time in his career. The filmmaker shares the bill with Laure Callam, Benoit Poelvorde, Josephine de Meo and Kim Higuelin.
More “author’s cinema” casting
Actors that Frank DuBosky has never worked with before. The director also specifies in the press kit that he has changed the casting director for Un Ours dans le Jura.
“For this film, I changed the casting director to another specialist in ‘author’ films. In the end, there is only one actor who comes from my world, the one who plays the priest, Christophe Cannard. All the others, from the woodsman to the barmaid, come from another register. This casting suited my I wish I had a different, more realistic tone for this movie.
He adds: “Lore, I knew she could be as funny as she was tragic. But what he does in A plein temps has me convinced: he’s there with both boundless energy and fragility. I wanted this lore, not that one, in a more comical register.”
Register change for Frank Dubosky
Frank Dubosky He talks about his evolution and the awareness that has influenced his work as a director: “As an actor, I have done many shoots to get love, to be loved. I suddenly said to myself: maybe at some point I need to love myself a little, do what I want and be honest. I have always been honest in my approach, but I want to be even more so. That’s why I waited so long before I dared to do it.
In the end, Patrick Chirac is a character very far from me.
And then, obviously, the movies I make are more like me because I wrote them by myself, except for the last one I wrote with Sarah Kaminski. But yes, it seems more to me. That being said, while I was doing something that looked like me, I had to go through other roles, other characters, to find myself. In the end, Patrick Chirac is a character far removed from me. It’s hard to play. I don’t walk in the street like that. “
in turn Benoit Poelvorde and Laura Kalam Admit being surprised to see it was a black comedy when they got the scriptA bear in the Jurassic.
Laure Kalam, who plays Cathy, the wife of Frank Dubosky’s character in the feature film, explains to our microphone: “I’m not going to lie, I was surprised. I had an idea of ​​the world that Frank was living in and it wasn’t that kind of movie at all. But the script really stood out to me, I loved it. It was fascinating to see someone who suddenly breaks down and goes where you don’t expect and actually , I think that’s where he’s going with “waiting for himself”.
I’m not going to lie, I was surprised.
Benoît Poelvoorde adds: “I didn’t know Frank before. We met on the set of Asterix, but that’s about it and I don’t watch TV. Ever since I was little, Frank was a comedy for me. When I got the script and talked about it, my close friends – who aren’t in the film industry – all had preconceived ideas about what to expect. Because I didn’t really know him, I had a bit of a premonition on my part, and when I finished the script, I was amazed. “Prejudices are really scary.”
Serious comedy
In the worthy tradition of Fargo by the Coen brothers, A bear in the Jurassic It makes us laugh unintentionally, and that’s partly what makes this movie, which plays with codes, so powerful. A feature film shot in Haut-Jura last winter was described by Frank Dubosk as a serious comedy. The filmmaker explained on France 3 Franche-Comte last March: “I wanted to change the genre with a little bit of comedy, but a little bit darker, more in the Coen Brothers kind of humor, like Fargo… all these movies where we laugh, but on the first level. Characters who are actually attached, I didn’t want a lighthearted comedy, but a serious comedy.“”
At our microphone, he adds:Black comedy to me is about making people laugh without gaffes. What I appreciate about this type of comedy is that I don’t try to impose laughs when writing. We don’t say, ‘Be careful, you have to laugh here. » We offer. In addition, I told my actors from the beginning of filming: we are not trying to make people laugh, we are playing everything literally, very seriously. And it is precisely this sincerity that ultimately makes it fun.
To me, that’s what black comedy is all about: the audience decides to laugh, either because it liberates them, or because it’s so big that they burst out laughing. For example, the first big laugh in the movie comes when a character hits a tree. When I wrote this scene, I never imagined that it would elicit laughter. And yet, at every screening, people laugh at that exact moment. This is a moment of horror, not excitement.”
A bear in the Jurassic You can see it in the cinema.
Source: Allocine
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