“I wanted this film to be as immoral as possible because not everyone is necessarily beautiful or nice…”: with “Un Ours dans le Jura”, in theaters Wednesday, Franck Dubosc surprises in front of and behind the camera with a burlesque thriller, in the footsteps of the Coen brothers.
After two romantic comedies – “Everybody Stands” (2018) and “Rumba la vie” (2022) – going against the grain of Patrick Chirac, his character as the unrepentant seducer in the “Camping” saga, Franck Dubosc signs a macabre comedy oscillating from laughter to fear.
Deep in the Jura, Cathy (Laure Calamy) and Michel (Franck Dubosc), at the head of a fir tree farm, find themselves the target of thugs who suspect them of having killed two of them, by pocketing along the way a loot of two million euros. The investigation is led by the local brigadier, played by Benoît Poelvoorde who also delivers a composition off the beaten track.
“I wanted laughter to arise naturally, almost implicitly, without breaking the dark atmosphere,” Franck Dubosc told AFP. “Even if I was lulled by the films of Bourvil and Ventura in particular + Les Grandes Moules +, I love the cinema of the Coen brothers. They dare to laugh at serious things. Where they inspired me was to to say that I could also make people laugh with revolvers”.
Beyond the plot, the heroes of “Un Ours dans le Jura” are once again deeply human, a common thread in the films directed by Franck Dubosc: “there is always something extra behind the gag or tragedy, perhaps because comedy ultimately is not my essence,” he points out.
– The realization “to explore” –
“By moving on to directing, I move forward, I explore… My luck is to have started as an actor with very popular cinema, preventing me from locking myself into elitism. This gave me a good + cardio + to go further, to do something else so as not to bore the public”, explains the 61-year-old actor and humorist who studied at the Rouen conservatory, with Valérie Lermercier and Karin Viard.
Assistant to the Bogdanoffs for the television show Temps in parallel with several alone on stage.
“I have always loved directing. As a child, I was already doing it with a Super 8 camera and my friends. I even wanted to enter IDHEC (NDRL Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies, now Fémis). And then, I imagined myself that the director was boring…”, says Franck Dubosc who is already working on a fourth feature film.
Will he return to the “one man show”?: “I'm not saying it's over… Seducing the public closely is a good reason, as Dany Boon will do”, who is making his return to the boards in 2025.
Franck Dubosc does not intend to forget the indescribable Patrick Chirac: “I am proud of him. I love him. I owe him a lot. It's rare in the life of an actor to have such a character! When we calls Patrick in the street, I'm not offended I already know that when I die a newspaper will headline: +Patrick Chirac is dead+. !”
