“I find myself absent”: Michel Blanc makes his mea-culpa about the Bronzés

“I find myself absent”: Michel Blanc makes his mea-culpa about the Bronzés
“I find myself absent”: Michel Blanc makes his mea-culpa about the Bronzés

If the film Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie, directed by Patrice Leconte on a script by the Splendid gang, did not work, it is his fault, he said in a joint interview with his ex-comrades in Paris Match.

So, seeing the glass half empty, is Michel Blanc not in fact faithful to his character in the saga?

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A relative failure, with 10 million entries, but a success below expectations. And a film which was “rubbed by the critics”, as the magazine reminds us.

“I didn’t want to make this film”

So why does the unforgettable interpreter of Monsieur Dusse (“Dusse, with a D like Dusse”) feel responsible for the average reception of the third opus of Les Bronzés? Because he went backwards. “I didn’t want to make this film but I didn’t want them to do it without me,” he admitted, before noting: “I find myself absent. »

Michel Blanc faithful to his character?

But his friends don’t agree on the flop idea! “10 million failures, I want more!” » commented Gérard Jugnot, pragmatically, while Thierry Lhermitte prefers to remember that “the number of entries does not matter. It was great to see what our characters had become, to show that they were still just as cowardly in the face of social poverty. A bit like everyone else, right? »

So, seeing the glass half empty, is Michel Blanc not in fact faithful to his character in the saga?

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