It’s the world upside downor the film that tells the end of the world, but with a laugh. Starring in this feature film by Nicolas Vanier, Michael Youn and Barbara Schulz play a bourgeois Parisian couple forced to take refuge in a farm after a widespread blackout throughout France. A comedy about the flaws of the urban lifestyle responsible for “the destruction of the planet”.
On the occasion of its release this Wednesday, October 16, Michaël Youn and Barbara Schulz were invited to the set of What an era! (France 2), this Saturday, October 12. “The question of the planet, surprisingly, is something that has affected you for quite some time. You posted at the time of COP 27 on your networks: 800 jets went to Egypt to tell us to go to work by bike, which is not wrong,” Léa Salamé reminds the 50-year-old actor. Engaged, his guest explains: “From the moment we have children, it’s hard not to think about it. The planet will get through this. The problem is humanity.”
Michael Youn recounts his life in the countryside, far from Paris
As for the message of the film, Michael Youn says: “It’s solidarity! And perhaps indeed less overconsumption, less overproduction. A return to happy sobriety as Nicolas Vanier so elegantly says.” Consistent with the synopsis, the actor emphasizes that “the filming was 100% eco-responsible”. “Dry toilets, no dressing room, generators that run on solar energy…”, lists Michael Youn who himself changed his lifestyle by moving to the countryside.
“I have lived in Paris for 50 years… We’re not going to lie, Paris is a tough, anxious, distressing city and for raising children, it’s still a little better that they have a blue sky, grass and trees so I moved to Provence, explains the dad of Seven (born in 2011) and Stella (born in 2019). I have my vegetable garden, I grow my tomatoes.” At his side, Barbara Schulz recognizes that she also needs to move away: “I have a small country house not far from Paris and I need to go there, even when I’m at the theater. I need to put my fingers in the earth, it’s important to walk in the forest , to walk in the fields I don’t understand how people who cut themselves off from nature do it..
