In just a few years, Gilles Lellouche has become the most bankable man in French cinema. The reason? He definitively transformed the essay behind the camera with The Great Bath in 2018. And, this year, he exceeded 3,000,000 admissions with his new film, Love phew. River and retro romance carried by Adèle Exarchopoulos et François Civil. The time when Gilles Lellouche clipped for
NTM or even Pascal Obispo. Or quite simply when he gravitated in the shadow of Jean Dujardin.
Gilles Lellouche: second-tier actor
Gilles Lellouche was not always this successful actor and director. Twenty years ago, however, he was already co-directing his first feature film. Offbeat comedy Narcowith Guillaume Canet and Benoît Poelvoorde. A small cult but not enough to raise notoriety. It took him a while to rise through the ranks in front of and behind the camera.
We were able to see him as a great friend in My life up in the airas a clumsy friend in The Little Handkerchiefsas a sinister mafioso in La French… Always in the background, eclipsed by a Vincent Elbaz, a François Cluzet or a Jean Dujardin. Friends first, again and again. Then the wheel turns, Gilles Lellouche in turn arrives at the top of the poster.
A star in front of and behind the camera
It leaves a lasting impression in Pupil et I will always see your facestwo films signed Jeanne
Herry. He breaks his image of “hetero beau” according to his own words. But it's behind the camera, two decades later
Narcothat he flourishes the most. As evidenced by the crazy success of Love phew which exploded 3 million spectators at the cinema!
In around twenty years, Gilles Lellouche has gone from being a service buddy scratching out a role to being a real conductor on a film set. Especially since Love phewa period film, taking place in the 80s, is a titanic project. And definitely his calling card for the future as a director who counts in the landscape of French cinema.
The cold anger of the actor-director
Flashback: it’s 2015. A series of Islamist terrorist attacks hit Île-de-France between January 7 and 9. The premises of the satirical newspaper are targeted Charlie Hebdoof the
police officers and customers of a kosher convenience store. Results: 17 people were killed in total and the three assassins were shot dead by the police.
“It was a real shock…”, says Gilles Lellouche
BFM-TV. “An immeasurable pain. And that really made me angry.” The actor-director switches to a cold and black tone: “I am against the assholes, the fanatics, the ultra-religious, the fascists, the racists, the anti-Semites, the preachers of hatred. I've had it up to here !”That way, it’s clear.
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