Gérard Depardieu in Saint Amour: I prefer drinking and wine – Le Figaro

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – On the occasion of the theatrical release of the film Delépine and Kervern, which tells the story of a father and son left crisscross France for the wine route, the actor comes exclusively for Le Figaro in a joint interview with his partner Benoît Poelvoorde.

LE FIGARO. – You shot the first scenes of Holy Love at the Agricultural Fair. It seems that it was “rock and roll”?

Benedict POELVOORDE. – It turned three days in the wild. Gerard, the Agricultural Fair is like a kid in a huge toy store. He is curious about everything, interested in everything. And he knows whereof he speaks! There you can detail all the parts of a cow and discuss how we make wine, by asking the right questions. And everyone wants him to taste a product, a drink.

not hard to see you drink in the film. Tell us about the wine …

Gérard Depardieu. – It’s not about making literature. The wine, it is good or it is not good. After that, it’s like art: if one is a little geek, it does not only the name of an artist, there are times, ups and downs in his work. Now there is a kind of consistency: all wheats alike, all wines are alike …

B. P. – I know nothing about wine. I have a report to drunkenness, not the wine.

G. D. – like I prefer drunkenness.

B. P. – It’s very complicated to be drunk. It takes some wisdom. It was so hard to live, then we drink. But beware, this is a “privileged” drunkenness. This is not to stultify asleep and despair, but to inhibitions. From the moment I find myself alone with me, I can communicate with others.

In the film, we talk about the ten stages of drunkenness …

B. P. – Yes, it is real, drinkers recognize. Whether wealthy or proles, it’s the same thing. At the end anyway, there is shame. It’s chemical, shame. You feel guilty. You tell me why again, then after a drinking bout? But why start another love story after a missed?

G. D. – The alcohol dependence, we must explain. This is the most difficult to cure, because there may be atavistic elements … In fact, it does not cure it. But the subject of the film, it’s not alcohol, it is the wine route. We do not get drunk with a great wine. Because we are first in usability.

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