In 2020, François Civil and Gilles Lellouche play the big-armed baceux in BAC North. Detective film as nervous as it is controversial, politically recovered by theextreme right when it was released in the cinema. On the set, the first is greatly impressed by the technique and professionalism of the second. Like a young boy watching his big brother in the playground. 2023, Gilles Lellouche turns Love phewriver and retro romance, offering the leading male role to François Civil. This one discusses his relationship with the actor-director…
François Civil: partner of Gilles Lellouche
In 2020, the Cannes press conference of BAC North takes a strange turn. An English-speaking journalist asks a question about the nervous thriller with François Civil and Gilles Lellouche.
This evokes the film's bias towards law enforcement. Embarrassed laughter from the actors and its director, Cedric Jimenezthere to defend
BAC North has Cannes.
In fact, some time later, after its cinema release, the feature film was adopted by the entire extreme right.
This makes him a standard bearer of a pro-law enforcement and anti-immigration doctrine… Ouch. Four years later, there is not much left of the film, except thefriendshipreal, between François Civil and Gilles Lellouche which leads to Love phew.
François Civil is the hero of Love phew
Love phewa somewhat outdated title, even ridiculous, for a titanic project by Gilles Lellouche who returns to his director's hat after The Great Bath in 2018.
A flowing, retro work, anchored in the 80s, between love and violence. A romance carried by François Civil, therefore, but also Adèle Exarchopoulos.
Like the Great Bath, Love phew is currently enjoying enormous success in the cinema. The film, released in mid-October, has already hit the charts with no less than 3.7 million spectators! A new success for the actor-director and the definitive orbit of François Civil as an actor bankable in French cinema. If that wasn't already the case.
The actor is full of praise for the director
The actor, omnipresent on the bill, comes to discuss the phenomenal success of Love phew in Click. And we are indeed talking about a phenomenon since a certain youth has reappropriated Gilles Lellouche's film on
TikTok. Facing Mouloud AchourFrançois Civil discusses his singular relationship with Gilles Lellouche.
“Gilles, it’s a gift.”, says the interpreter of
Clotaire In Love phew. “He's such a generous guy, so human, so touching, so artistically strong..” François Civil is full of praise for his director friend:
“Ihe really ticks all the boxes of a great actor”. A declaration of love, therefore, of phew love, obviously.
