Since his first role in The Falcon by Paul Boujenah in 1983, Vincent Lindon has continued to make a series of films, particularly those in which he played political characters. With a career that no longer needs to be presented in the cinema, the actor is back in the third feature film by directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin, Playing with Fire. He plays a widowed father who raises his two sons alone, and who finds himself distraught in the face of the rapprochement of one of his boys with far-right groups, contrary to his own socialist convictions. A role which earned him the Volpi Cup for best male performance at the Venice Film Festival in 2024, and which inspired a question from Laurent Delahousse in the 8:30 p.m. Sunday edition broadcast on January 19 on France 2.
Featured in Laurent Delahousse’s weekly portrait, Vincent Lindon found himself sitting at a table with the journalist on Sunday January 19. And while the two men discussed the actor’s career while drinking two glasses of wine, the star presenter of France 2 took the liberty of discussing the political commitment of the father of Marcel and Suzanne Lindon. “You have this dimension of actor, through your choices sometimes through your speeches, engaged politically. Do you like politicians?” asked Laurent Delahousse. A question to which Vincent Lindon answered, without speaking out: “I loved them, and I admired them. In the past.” Wishing him to clarify his thoughts, Laurent Delahousse (…)
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