Elbeuf: Max Boublil and his acolytes set fire to the Grand Mercure

Followed by the TF1 television camerasplayers Max BoublilSteve Tientcheu and Malik Amraoui, alongside director Gregory Boutboul, did not remain indifferent to the rain of applause that fell on them.

And for good reason ! Not a single spectator remained in their seat at the end of the screening of the feature film Neuilly Poissy, for his previewat the Grand Mercure in Elbeuf.

A plea for living together

The pitch? A schemer and a smooth talker, Daniel, a Jewish self-made man, seems to be a man fulfilled between his family life and his thriving business. Until the day he is arrested for financial embezzlement and has to exchange his house for a 9 m² cell in the company of two fellow prisoners of Muslim faith, light years away from him.

Struck at the age of seven by the slap Indiana Jones, director and startuper Grégory Boutboul scrutinizes the confessional disharmony between Jewish and Muslim fellow prisoners in this first film. The one who in his youth never stopped picturing a number of stories, in the company of his rigid plastic figurines, shatters interreligious preconceptions with the back of his sleeve.

It’s a film that I’ve been wearing for a very long time! It’s inspired by true stories and when I was told these stories of Jewish Easter with Jewish and Muslim inmates, I absolutely wanted to make this film!

A message that immediately convinced actor Max Boublil: “I received the script and I said to myself that it was great and that I would really like to do it! I met Grégory and I knew it was a funny and moving film. I knew I had to do it! »

Sharing and fraternity

Presented in competition and official selection of the 27th Alpe d’Huez festival, this comedy highlights temperance, respect and sharing. “We filmed during June and July and there were riots. We were filming the Jewish Passover scene with Gérard Jugnot, it was very moving and everyone was fascinated. This is really the scene that shocked me during filming. It is a great fraternity between the communities. »

Values ​​which, it seems, also touched the spectators of the Mercure cinema in Elbeuf, delighted with this screening and the discussions with the film team.

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