“Before there were 900 artists who were involved! Painters, musicians, whatever you want. There are no more,” laments the actor starring in the film Play with fire, in theaters Wednesday.
On the movie poster Play with fire, which will be released in theaters on Wednesday January 22, Vincent Lindon, with his forty years in cinema, spoke to AFP about his new role but also about his vision of the world of culture. In this feature film by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, the 65-year-old French actor plays a railway worker confronted with the radicalization of one of his sons (Benjamin Voisin), attracted by the violent far-right, while his brother (Stefan Crépon) pursues brilliant studies.
A performance which earned him the prize for male interpretation at the Venice Film Festival. « I was overjoyed, overwhelmed, because it’s double (with Cannes), so it’s not nothing. I was shocked and touched terribly by (the president of the jury) Isabelle Huppert because it’s so un-French (to reward a compatriot),” he told AFP. Asked about the scenario, the actor also explains having « loved it » the fact « that there are two stories ». One on family and fatherhood and another on radicalization.
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« For me, the most important thing is family. How can a father be helpless in front of one of his two children when they were raised the same way? They ate the same food, dressed the same, had the same mother, the same father.” “ The little story, but not nothing, is this radicalization. (…) It’s the lack of hope. When we are not busy, we lose everything, trust, love. The first small group that is interested in you, that considers you, we follow it. We will seek comfort that we have nowhere. We get enlisted »he adds.
-“Now there are 72 million journalists, 72 million police commissioners”
A film that resonates with our present according to the actor. « I was going to tell you that this is the state of France. But that’s the state of the world. The way we watch without reacting, with despair, a youth lacking hope and alienating themselves in the world of reaction, rather than the world of reflection. Asked about the role of culture in the face of the rise of the far right, the actor says that « the world of culture has become terribly gentrified and tilted”. The intellectuals « no longer communicate with each other. Everyone writes their book, their pamphlet… At the same time, it’s extremely difficult for them to address a generation whose culture is no longer the same, who are on social networks, with ready-made thoughts “, he laments.
« Now, there are 72 million journalists in France, 72 million police commissioners. We hardly read anymore, we react to something we read in three sentences on a social network! We are among the crazy »he continues. « I can’t stand being asked these questions anymore because others don’t answer them. Before, there were 900 artists involved! Painters, musicians, whatever you want. There are no more.” But the actor does not say to himself “ desperate ». « I have terrible confidence in women and men. At some point, unconsciously, everyone will pass the word to each other. It will no longer be bearable and humans will stop all this. »
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