He is the hero of “En fanfare” alongside Benjamin Lavernhe. The most beautiful surprise in French cinema at the end of the year!
He doesn't hide his face: “If the profession has understood that I could embody something else, in the street, they always bring me back to the “Tuche”. And that's not about to change. » Despite the success of the comic saga, summarizing Pierre Lottin as Wilfried, the rapper son, nasal voice, cap screwed on his head and abstruse phrasing, would be a big mistake. From Ozon's films to “La nuit du 12”, by Dominik Moll, or even “Vivants”, by Alix Delaporte, he displays his sportsman's physique overlooked by a recognizable and yet mysterious face. His gentle incarnation of Ozon's lost son in “When Autumn Comes” earned him the San Sebastian Festival Interpretation Prize. How incredibly restrained he is in his role as a trombone player in search of brotherly love in “En fanfare”. Since its presentation at Cannes, the film has won audience awards at all the festivals it screens at.
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A success which imposes its director, Emmanuel Courcol, as a beautiful mixture of Sautet and Dabadie, with a hint of Ken Loach or “Full Monty”. Just that. “Emmanuel has a pen,” confirms Lottin. He could accompany an opera orchestra with a trumpet. He brings color to the darkness and dares to talk about serious subjects when he is not asked to do so. The film was originally written more as a comedy. But, during filming, he pushed us to explore tenderness and melancholy. The portrait of these two brothers who discovered each other late in life was also the story of a meeting with Benjamin Lavernhe. Everything on screen sums up what we experienced during filming. »
Four films, a series, a wedding… 2024 has been a busy year
Four films, a series, that's enough to complete a busy year 2024, enhanced by a wedding this summer, posted on social networks. He likes to work with Michaël Youn as with Anne Fontaine or Jean-Jacques Annaud: “I think I have my own universe and I am happy when I can measure it against another. » Pierre Lottin sees his work as highlighting gray areas and likes to play with his body or his voice. “Afterwards, we have to put all that into perspective. We don't change the world…” He played soldiers in “Qu'un sang impur…”, by Abdel Raouf Dafri, or “Les harkis”, by Philippe Faucon, he who, as a teenager, wanted to join the green berets. He throws himself into sport, dreams of himself in action films, invents a character, Steve Nanger. But the voice of wisdom will come from his father, who said to him one day: “You don't know what to do, you're going to make it your job. »
An internship at Cours Florent comes at the right time. Looking back, he confirms: “I am made for that, I am fundamentally an actor. » He cites Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss or Albert Dupontel, pell-mell, “those who can be clever while remaining ambiguous”. He loves the crazy atmospheres of Yorgos Lanthimos or Todd Haynes, “their way of telling the infinitely large and the infinitely small, while exploding taboos”. The one we will see in February in a fifth “Tuche” finds French cinema a little too wise, too self-centered. “We sometimes lack a universe, our cinema has lost sight of France as it is today. »
“En fanfare”, in theaters now.
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