In 2020, while the pandemic forced the planet to confine herself, a film tumbles into Netflix: lost ball, signed Guillaume Pierret. Immediate success for the phenomenon that gives colors to the Moribond French action cinema and reveals the intrepid Alban Lenoir, actor and stuntman who is not afraid of taking risks to offer an ambitious, generous and over -vitamin spectacle. Today 44 years old, he will soon be playing in the third online installment on May 7, but before in dark rooms with the release of a good name, from Morgan S. Dalibert.
He plays the mentor of a 17 -year -old girl who dreams of being a motor racing driver. Max (Paola Locatelli) was predestined to like speed, born in a car launched at high speed on the highway while his father took his mother to give birth to the hospital. At the wheel, the competitor feels alone in the world, free and living, time stops and nothing counts. Stanislas, the whimsical son of a stable boss (Alban Lenoir) notices his potential and decides to help him unravel in this male universe …
The title summons the franchise Fast & Furious, Rush (2013) by Ron Howard and Le Mans 66 (2019) by James Mangold in this very effective learning story, with an immersive staging (the bitumen camera) and impressive sequences, in particular on the circuits, choreographed by the specialist David Julienne (son of Rémy) and his team. Morgan S. Dalibert heads to the floor This entertainment doped for adrenaline where it is a question of finding her place for a teenager determined to become a champion.
In the role of the mentor, Alban Lenoir symbolically operates a passage of relays, hoping to prove to the new generation that we are able to make high -flying action cinema in France. “” We must restore confidence with producers, distributors and the public, he underlines. Over the past twenty years, not very qualitative projects have caused reluctance. Delicate under these conditions of investing in a feature film that will not garner entries. We show that the opposite is possible, without costing mirobal sums. All the (modest) fast budget is on the screen, not in the cachets of the actors! »
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This return to grace was allowed thanks to the support of Netflix for a lost bullet, when no one wanted it. “” The idea consisted of turning old -fashioned, without digital effects, with a guy in the car that performed all his stunts. In this case, it was me! I remember a dithyrambic article in the New York Times saying that we were changing the situation: everything was “for real”, I did not use a lining, I was blowing the blows and I was not simulated when I was in pain. “At the time, the JDD had baptized it” The French Cruise Tom »! Which amuses Alban Lenoir, with the body sharpened by the practice of martial arts.
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For fast, he underwent training with his friend Esteban Ocon, Formula 1 pilot formerly at Alpine, who has just entered Haas. He gave him the best advice and authorized her to drive a racing car at 300 km/h. “We must not miss: we sneeze and we end up in the decor 200 meters further!” If he is not a Hollywood star, he benefited from the same training as a certain Brad Pitt who was preparing at the same time for F1 by Joseph Kosinski (released on June 25). “” We did not cross, but the instructor certified me that our time was similar to the chronometer … »
Fast ✯✯, dand Morgan St. Dalibert, with Alban Lenoir, Paola Locatelli. 1 h 38. It came out Wednesday.
