Wednesday October 2, at 9:05 p.m., France 2 offers An ideal father, new TV film with Laurent Gerra and Eddy Mitchell, friends for twenty years but for the first time reunited on screen. Our opinion.
Wednesday October 2, at 9:05 p.m., France 2 offers a new TV film entitled An ideal father. Directed by actress-filmmaker Hélène Filières (heroine of Mafia, on Canal+), with which Laurent Gerra had already shot A confession alongside Catherine Frot, he allowed the French’s favorite imitator (seen last year in Death at the top), and his great friend Eddy Mitchellto be partners on screen for the first time.
An ideal father : what is this TV film about with Laurent Gerra and Eddy Mitchell, broadcast on October 2 on France 2?
All smiles, Christelle and her friend Karine put on their makeup before going to a party. The second fears the reaction of her father, Michel (Laurent Gerra), manager of the bar-restaurant The fox is laughingwhen she will negotiate permission to return after midnight. Since the death of his mother, the relationship between them has been close. At the same time, Jeff (Eddy Mitchell), priest of this small village in Normandy and best friend of the bistro owner, is busy above the table football, before immortalizing in photos the two teenage girls in their outfits that he finds a tad provocative. The evening continues to the sound of songs and clinking glasses. A few hours later, Michel is awakened by the sound of someone knocking on the door of his establishment. It is his daughter, clearly in distress. He barely has time to go down and open the door when his child collapses on the doorstep…
An ideal father : what is this TV film with Laurent Gerra and Eddy Mitchell worth, broadcast on October 2 on France 2?
From the first images, the biases of director Hélène Filières infuse a particular charm into this thriller between fable and contemporary western. From his work on light, on the slightly nostalgic music, as well as on the slowness of his shots, emanate a feeling of suspended time, to better accompany the inevitable which is emerging in this drama. At the heart of a solid and unostentatious cast, the Eddy Mitchell-Laurent Gerra duo, crushed by doubt and rumor, skillfully plays with their silences, letting the image express the painful confusion of feelings. If the first wears the cassock with the same naturalness as he puts on a perfecto, the second offers a composition with disturbing minimalism. A resolutely ambitious TV film, which takes the risk of shaking up the droning conventions of the genre, in favor of the vision of a director.
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