Play with fire is a film about family, father-son transmission. It is also a film anchored in the burning news of today's politics. For this film, Vincent Lindon received the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival. The actor plays a father who raises his two boys alone. Powerless, he feels betrayed, faced with the drift of the eldest, who is getting closer to small far-right groups.
Will love for his son be stronger than his disagreement? “Her son is a young man who suffers from the absence of his mother. He no longer succeeds at school and sees it as a failure, explains Delphine Coulin, who was a student at Sciences Po Rennes and a volunteer at the Traveling festival. The path to drift is often a shaky family pattern, coupled with a humiliation, an encounter. »
The film, very strong, is an adaptation of the novel What you need at night by Laurent Petitmangin published in 2020. It was produced by the Lorient sisters, Delphine and Muriel Coulin. Vincent Lindon established himself in the lead role. “The film is dark, but we wanted real scenes of family joy and complicity” explains Muriel Coulin.
To interpret the two sons, the two directors were looking for real brothers, before hiring Benjamin Voisin and Stefan Crepon (The legends office, Making off, Peter von Kant). “We were roommates for five years, we are the best friends in the world,” says the young actor, present Monday December 9 at Arvor with the two directors. He interprets with finesse and emotion, the youngest son, “the keystone of the family, hope, which puts his father and his brother in their place”.
The film will be released on January 22, 2025.
