In 2024, Pierre Niney will be “The Count of Monte Cristo”. And he is currently featured in Michel Gondry’s “Book of Solutions”. The opportunity to play with your roles and your faces!
In May last year, The Book of Solutions was released, the latest production by Michel Gondry, a rather discreet filmmaker, who was making his twelfth feature film since his very first Human Nature in 2001.
His previous film, Microbe and Gasoil, dates back to 2015 (in the meantime he tried his hand at the TV series with Kidding, in which he reunited with actor Jim Carrey).
Headlining, the couple Blanche Gardin and Pierre Niney, an actor who will very soon be seen in the role of Edmond Dantès, for the highly anticipated Count of Monte Cristo.
Directed by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte (The First Name, The Best is Yet to Come), the adventure film is scheduled for June 24, and its trailer has been available for a few weeks.
And it is precisely to this actor that we are devoting our quiz of the day, with nine films to recognize.
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A dream collaboration
The Book of Solutions is the first collaboration between Pierre Niney and Michel Gondry. However, the two men had already rubbed shoulders years before: in fact, the actor had chosen the director in 2012 as godfather for the Revelations evening, organized each year by the César academy for promising young actors and actresses.
Self-portrait
With The Book of Solutions, Michel Gondry makes the character of Marc his alter-ego and draws inspiration from his own life: “Just before making Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I filled a notebook writing down all the problems I encountered on Human Nature. Then I wrote down all the solutions to these problems. The character Pierre Niney plays is me about 70%.” (Extract from an interview given to Première magazine, n°543).
The Cévennes
The Book of Solutions was filmed in June and July 2022, mainly in Saint-Sauveur- Camprieu and Villemagne in Gard. The extras were locals, while half of the technical crew was local.