Available in all cinemas in France since last Wednesday October 16, Love phew is the latest film by Gilles Lellouche. The plot takes place in the 1980s, in the north of France and follows Jackie (Adèle Exarchopoulous) and Clotaire (François Civil), somewhat fiery teenagers who fall madly in love with each other.
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Over the months, the lovebirds take two different paths: she studies, hangs out with him and starts hanging out with bad people. Life will try to separate them, but nothing works, these two are like the two ventricles of the same heart…
Why did Gilles Lellouche lose his calm against Raphaël Quenard?
Pour Love phewGilles Lellouche surrounded himself with several strong personalities, including Raphaël Quenard. On the set of C to you on France 5 on October 14, the screenwriter and director admitted having lost his calm in the face of Raphaël Quenard’s attitudewho plays Clotaire’s little brother, on the film set. Gilles Lellouche first sets out the context: “There was one time when there was a very long take between Jean-Pascal Zadi and François Civil, and it was very long for them because it was a long monologue, a sequence shot.”
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“Raphaël Quenard arrived with his long, broad improvisations. He improvised for 40 seconds, which is a bit much when he had to say two words!“, adds the filmmaker before making his mea culpa: “so after once, twice, three times, I got angry, and I apologize“Fortunately, the main person concerned does not seem to hold grudges. Moreover, he admits that he is at fault: “No no, I liked it. I looked for it“.
Gilles Lellouche knew that Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil would play the heroes of Love phew on the set of North Bac
Guest on the set of Daily by Yann Barthès on October 8, Gilles Lellouche explains that he knew that Adèle Exarchopoulous and François Civil were the perfect actors to play Jackie and Clotaire on the set of the film North Bacin 2020.
“We were filming a scene in Bac Nord, a barbecue scene which had nothing to do with our film. I saw them as my heroes because I saw the complicity they had, the ungrateful physique they also had.“, he laughed.
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Gilles Lellouche confides that he immediately imagined them as “a beautiful couple at the cinema“He never considered other actors for Love phew since he even “writes the characters with them in mind.”
