“For me, this film is music.” With “Good Families”, the filmmaker Jean-Paul Rappeneau sign a work in constant motion, oscillating between fresco and romantic ensemble comedy, twelve years after his last album “Bon voyage.” This new film is only the eighth feature by the filmmaker, after a career of over 50 years marked by The Castle Life (1966), The Bride of the Year II (1971), The Wild (1975) or Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), awarded the César Award for Best Film and the Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1991.
With a star cast – Mathieu Amalric , Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche , Nicole Garcia, Karin Viard Guillaume de Tonquédec and André Dussolier – Belles Families tells the story of Jerome Varenne (Amalric), a man who left France to live in China. Learning that the family home in which he grew up in the province is the heart of a local conflict, he decided to go there. The events linked together that will cause him to make discoveries about his family and himself.
“It was a moment that I still had it in his head. It’s a film the province, the deep France but in the bath of globalization, “says Jean-Paul Rappeneau, which highlights have also wanted to find something” that province he knew teenager and child. ” “I lived 18 years in the provinces, I am a former provincial of the years up to Paris. And I always thought of the idea that it would one day make a film that brasserait some souvenirs, that really would not talk about my life while speaking, “he says. “That’s what I liked, stir memories and meddle in things that are really those of France today,” added the director.
A film “Mélan comic”
From this frame, Jean -Paul Rappeneau said he wanted to sign “a film Mélan comic “, which mixes comedy with a more serious tone. “What I like above all is a mix of genres, mixing the colors where you can go from a laugh to something that suddenly shake your throat,” said the filmmaker. “Each film has its music. This music, one can invent while shooting, but I write the score before,” yet says this perfectionist, famous for accurately predict all movements of the actors before filming, asking them to be very faithful to the text and planned movements and to make short shots where it cuts in a few aftershocks.
“The movements, movements, replicas, all that was designed before, not alone by the way, in sequences where I play the scenes before my collaborators,” explains -t it. The tempo, “this is what concerns me quickly when I began designing a movie,” he explains. “It ends up becoming a kind of rhythm study. And the speed does not mean haste or agitation, that means a drive, a voltage constantly, with accelerations but also quieter moments.” “Rhythm is the heart of my film,” says the filmmaker, for whom “a film must be felt physically for a director.” It also says “can not help during the shoot when the actors play, swing in the rhythm of their lines as if in spite of himself he was trying to physically feel the pulse of the scene.” “I’m like a kind of metronome,” he concludes.
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