“Une Belle course” by Christian Carion was released at the cinema on Wednesday. The opportunity to test your knowledge of Dany Boon’s filmography. We give you the pitch, can you find the title of the film?
17 years later Merry Christmasl, the director Christian Carion find Dany Boon for A Beautiful Race with Line Renaud.
In the feature film, Madeleine, 92, calls a taxi to reach the retirement home where she must now live. She asks Charles, a slightly disillusioned driver, to go through the places that mattered in her life, to see them one last time. Gradually, at the bend of the streets of Paris, an extraordinary past emerges that upsets Charles. There are taxi trips that can change a life…
Dany Boon finds there the actress Line Renaud with whom he has already collaborated on The House of happiness, Welcome to the Ch’tis and The Ch’tite family.
The opportunity to test your knowledge of the career of the French actor and director. We give you the simplified pitch of a film, it’s up to you to find the film.
Collaborations
Line Renaud and Dany Boon had already worked together in three comedies of the latter: The House of happiness, Welcome to the Ch’tis and The Ch’tite family. With A beautiful race, Christian Carion wanted to take this duo in another direction, like the role he had entrusted to Dany Boon in Merry Christmas in 2005.
At the time, the actor was afraid of confusing his audience, as the director reports: “At the time, I told him that he was one of those actors capable of making us laugh and moving us, like Bourvil. Dany replied that as a kid, when he had seen Bourvil in Le Cercle Rouge, he had been disappointed…”
When A great race presented itself to him, Dany Boon now felt ready to explore other registers: “Roles like that, I’m not offered any”.
As for Line Renaud, Christian Carion met her via Boon at the preview of Merry Christmas but had never worked with her. “I think that with Line, we had an appointment to honor…”
An extraordinary friendship
Christian Carion returns to the extremely strong bond between Dany Boon and Line Renaud: “I know what unites them is quite unique. There are between them the same modest origins in Armentières, the same “American dream” in a way. I know that this story is not trivial for both of them…
It is a rather rare alchemy which must be used because it is also jubilant. To film them is first of all to be a spectator!”
While living in Las Vegas at the time, Line Renaud had heard of a young comedian from the North who was making a remarkable debut. She had decided to send him a telegram to congratulate him. The actress explains: “It was our first contact, from a distance. Then I went to see him when he was playing his play Construction site life and it was at this moment, in his dressing room, that we really got to know each other…”