We're not going to lie to each other, we had a little doubt when discovering the new season of “L'Amour est dans le pré”, the first part of the portraits of which was broadcast this Monday evening on M 6. And if the twentieth season was that one too many? They say love lasts 7 years. So, how can we not fear being disappointed with this new round of farmers looking for a soul mate?
Yet the recipe still works. From the first meetings conducted between humor and tenderness by Karine Le Marchand, we are carried away by the humanity of these farmers who gave everything for their farms, to the point of losing themselves personally. The first five portraits have all this in common. A neglected private life, a sometimes total absence of sex life for some.
The most moving in this case is surely the shy 28-year-old Mathieu, very invested in his village and passionate about handball, who dreams of a kind woman, ready to share his simple and authentic life, and above all his values. A farmer since 2016 on the family farm where he raises 450 dairy sheep to produce Roquefort, the young man has never had a romantic relationship.
“So the page is blank? laughs Karine Le Marchand. You're afraid of the rake… That's the height of it for a farmer. You might as well grab some shovels instead. » Very close to his parents with whom he works every day, a heart disease almost took his life when he was only 20 years old. “The doctors did as with a computer, they pressed the “reset” button and stopped my heart,” says this farmer who is very attached to his sheep. So I've already died once. I saw the white tunnel and I saw my grandfather who just said a word to me… goes back down. He had been dead for six years. When I was little, I looked after the sheep with him in the stroller. » A near-death experience that provides an ultra-moving moment that is impossible to watch without tissues.
Antoine, author of “the joke of the century”
On the emotional side, Antoine's portrait has almost as much effect. The face of this small man with a big heart in the Grand-Est will make you fall in love. From the first minutes of the presentation, he exudes immense sympathy. Between milking the cows at dawn and working the crops, he never stops. And as that wasn't enough, he added a task to his busy schedule: renovating his house in preparation for filming the upcoming show.
And the big changes don't stop at the decoration but also an express makeover. “We had to make an appointment with the hairdresser and go shopping,” he laughs. But what will cause him the most worry is not new pants that are too tight or too wide but… his contact lenses that he wears for the first time against Karine Le Marchand. While he is pouring out his thoughts on his cows and a fire that ravaged his grandmother's house, he loses one!
“Aaahh, but a lens fell there, don’t move, we’ll pick it up,” laughs Karine Le Marchand. Don't move. But the problem is that I didn't put my contacts in either. I saw him jump! But you shouldn't rub your eyes with it. » Despite his good advice, it was impossible for Antoine to put the lens back on alone. Louise Horellou, who is responsible for searching for the farmers and accompanying them during the adventure, then appears on the screen to hand it over to him. “So wait, we’ll give it to you if I may,” continues the host. A funny scene which provokes a burst of laughter from Karine Le Marchand, in tears. “There you go, it was the joke of the century,” concluded Antoine between two chuckles.
There is also laughter when discovering Jean-Louis, a 53-year-old suckler cow breeder in Occitanie who lives with Lucette, his adorable mother. As she begins to chat with the matriarch, she realizes that the older person has quite a language tic. She punctuates all her sentences with the word “thing”! “There were ten of us until grandpa… Thing! “, she confides. “Ah that means deceased », translates Karine Le Marchand. “Yes, that’s it,” confirms the grandmother and starts again. “When Jean-Louis lost his father a year and a half ago, it was… Thing,” she continues. “Thing… It’s a word that you like to end your sentences,” laughs Karine Le Marchand, in a hilarious sequence for fans of the region and its witticisms.
