A host of stars for three simultaneous shoots in Angoulême

LThe Angoulême Film Festival has not yet started and the stars are already making their cinema in town. Three shoots are currently underway. “Les boules de Noël”, filmed in the middle of summer, with Kad Merad and Valérie Bonneton. “Adieu Jean-Pat” with Valérie Karsenti, Liliane from “Scènes de ménages” on M6, and the comedian Hakim Jemili. And finally “La manière forte”, which started this Monday with Grégoire Bonnet, another actor from “Scènes de ménages”, the caricatured and unbearable pharmacist, obsessed with his wealth and his age.

1. “The hard way”

This time, Grégoire Bonnet plays the role of Thierry Chevalier, a retired, macho former cop with very controversial methods, who has been asked to return to service to investigate a series of murders that bear the signature of a killer, still in prison, whom he himself arrested by extorting a confession… by force.

Chevalier is placed under the orders of the young Captain Kabongo, as progressive as he is conservative. She is a feminist, an ecologist, a vegan, everything he hates. He is a misogynist, a reactionary, a meat-eater… everything she fights against. His young colleague who has just graduated, played by Clarisse Lhoni-Botte, drives an electric car, while he makes his big Harley roar.

On Monday, the first day of filming, the entire crew was filming at Place du Commandant Raynal in Angoulême, in the photocopy shop, one of the last scenes of this police comedy for France 2, directed by Vincent Primault. After several days of filming this week in Charente-Maritime, the actors will be back in Angoulême on Monday, July 8 at the church of L’Houmeau. Filming ends on July 26.

2. “Goodbye Jean-Pat”

By then, Grégoire Bonnet may have the opportunity to meet his neighbor on the landing in “Scènes de ménages”, Valérie Karsenti. Liliane, the eccentric homemaker on M6, is also filming in a church this week, but in Nersac “Adieu Jean-Pat”, with the comedian of the networks Hakim Jemili in the lead role.

This Tuesday, she played a mother in tears after the death of her son alongside her husband Thibault de Montalembert, the artistic agent Mathias Barneville from Dix ​​pour cent, and Fanny Sidney, also an actress in Dix pour cent, where she played… the illegitimate daughter of Thibault de Montalembert. Laurence Arné from Angoumois had been contacted to play in this film but due to scheduling issues, the Charentaise, who has just released her first film La Famille Hennedricks, had to decline.

If in the TV movie “La manière forte”, Angoulême is clearly identified, the action of “Adieu Jean-Pat” takes place in a small provincial town where this poor Akim Jémili, a young thirty-something, will have to manage, following a series of unforeseen events, the burial of his worst childhood enemy. The cemetery scenes will take place in Rivières before a night shoot, Friday July 5, on the Ramparts near Boulevard Emile-Roux with a view of the lit-up Obézine church. Filming ends on July 18. Then, the comedy, directed by Cécilia Rouaud and co-written by Fabcaro, comic book author and novelist, should be released in the second half of 2025.

3. “Christmas balls”

The editorial team advises you

The editorial team advises you

A busy time for the extras – there were 110 of them on Tuesday in Nersac – who have to adjust their schedules with this third shoot of “Les boules de Noël”, a comedy by Alexandra Leclère. After having taken over the pedestrian streets of Angoulême and the Optic 2000 store on June 17, Kad Merad and Valérie Bonneton are currently spending Christmas Eve together in a house in Jarnac. Before the end of filming on August 2, they will return on July 20 to the Glamots rehabilitation center in Roullet, which has been transformed into an emergency department.