In theaters today, Everything went well features an unrecognizable André Dussollier, masterful in the skin of a father as odious as he is irresistible. A metamorphosis that we owe to the direction of unique actors of François Ozon. Meet.
He has performed under the direction of the most eminent, from Alain Resnais to André Téchiné. We have seen him in many tasty and surprising roles and yet … It is under the watchful eye of François Ozon that André Dussollier amazes us. Slipping into the skin of Emmanuel Berheim’s father, whose filmmaker adapted the autobiography “Everything went well”, the actor portrays this ambivalent man, selfish but touching, unrestrained, saucy, (im) forgivable, funny and tough who, following a disabling stroke, dares to ask his daughters to help him die.
While the actor reveals to us -video above- how he transformed and worked this demanding role of a whole man, who can no longer bear his degraded state, his partner Geraldine Pailhas looks back on his own work and that master Ozon, who despite the seriousness of his words, allowed “full of moments of smiles and also giggles”, leaving to its actors the care of “practically playing every take everything and its opposite, from the most tragic to the most burlesque”, in order to modulate the moods and emotions of his heroes as he pleases.
Accustomed to her acting direction, the actress confides having chosen here again to rely largely on the director and his words, relieving herself of the pressure that there was to know in the city Emmanuèle Bernheim and playing the role of his sister: “Pascale Bernheim being alive, it is possible that we will meet one day and I would very much like to do so now. But I do not have the feeling that there was such a need before. It’s nice to also rely on François, not by doing nothing but by following him in what he wants to do. “
So it’s around the conductor, “author, director, cameraman and man in a hurry”, that the two actors surrounded by Sophie Marceau formed a team “in tune“, enthusiastic about her “first look of the spectator” and the game of seduction he creates. A collaboration “fluid, obvious, harmonious” in the service of a remarkable film, approaching a serious social subject with grace and in different tones, between drama, vaudeville, and hint of thriller. To discover today at the cinema.
Journalist: Laetitia Ratane
Editing: Ando Raminoson
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