Franck Dubosc and Benoît Poelvoorde sold out “A Bear in the Jura”

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Room 1 of the Le Palace des cinema Andelys (Your) had stocked up to welcome, Thursday December 19, 2024, Franck Dubosc et Benoît Poelvoorde. Before going to Elbeuf then to Rouenthe director and the actor stopped to present “A Bear in the Jura”.

Before the screening, they answered questions from Richard Patrythe president of the Noé Cinémas group.

Benoît Poelvoorde notably recounted the filming.

“In his mission letter, Franck Dubosc invited us to equip ourselves with warm clothing. At the end he even wrote ‘You’re going to be cold’. So we bought lots of clothes that we didn’t use. It didn’t snow once on set. »

This exhilarating comedy with a thriller background is aimed at an informed audience. This is not a family film, some scenes may shock young people.

However, the spectators at the end of the screening seemed to appreciate this cinematographic register in line with Fargo of the Coen brothers.

Before going down to the room, Franck Dubosc and Benoît Poelvoorde gave us a few minutes of interview.

Franck Dubosc, almost seven years later, is back at the Le Palace cinema in Andelys to present your latest feature film.

At the time, it brought me luck for Everyone Standing (Editor’s note: the film had recorded 2.4 million admissions). I therefore return with great pleasure to Les Andelys.

With “A Bear in the Jura”, you return with a style of film in which we would not necessarily expect you. What made you turn to thrillers?

It remains a comedy. When we do the same thing we are criticized for doing the same thing and when we do something else we notice that we are doing something else. I didn’t do anything else, I just made a comedy which has another setting where everything is more advanced. I wanted to make a cinema film with always laughter but with revolvers and dead people. Of all my films, I think this is the one where there are the most laughs. It’s quite surprising.

Benoît Poelvoorde, who plays a gendarmerie major in the film, intervenes:

“It’s funny violence. Charlie Chaplin said something pretty brilliant. If you film very closely a guy slipping on a banana peel, you will see his pain. If you walk away, people will laugh because a fall is always funny. It’s his point of view that makes the difference. »

How was the idea for this incredible scenario born?

I wanted to make a rural western. When I was little, I had a Super 8 camera and all the films I made had bad guys, good guys, cowboys, little cars. I returned to my childhood cinema. There, I’m lucky to have real actors, big cars, real guns.

The first few minutes feel like an action movie. It’s remarkably filmed.

It is. As I wanted people to believe everything, I had to be very serious at the very beginning of the film to highlight the moment where we are not going to take ourselves seriously. The first laugh in the film is the man falling and impaling himself against a tree trunk.

Michel, your character is a little faded compared to Laure Calamy who plays your wife or Benoît Poelvoorde, excellent in the role of the gendarme.

It’s a constant in my films, I like to put women forward. In Everyone Standing it was Alexandra Lamy and in Rumba la vie it was the young girl. It’s advantageous for me to let Laure Calamy and Benoît Poelvoorde play the most complicated scores since I’m directing. It’s better for me to be a bit of a spectator. As a director, I’m the first in class who isn’t allowed to go to recess.

Benoît Poelvoorde, how did you react when Franck Dubosc offered you the role?

I was surprised. We didn’t know each other so I wondered why he was thinking of me. We met on the set of Asterix, I can’t even tell you who played Obelix (he laughs). When I read the script, I loved the character straight away.

So what dictated the director’s choice?

When I finished writing, I immediately thought of Benoît, of whom I have always been a fan. This character is Benoît’s age, I wanted him with the weight of the world on his shoulders and I know that he knows how to play it very well and at the same time he is full of empathy. The one leading the investigation, I wanted people to like him.

Benoît Poelvoorde cuts him off. “There are three of us in the gendarmerie, we are neither very smart nor very stupid. We’re doing our job, that’s all. »

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