If he is faithful to his psychologist, Dany Boon is seriously considering changing therapists because of an unfortunate detail. We explain it to you here!
After directing a film for Netflix two years ago, Dany Boon finds his first love this Wednesday, April 19, 2023. It is indeed in the cinema that the 56-year-old actor and filmmaker returns with a completely lunar new feature film, life for real. In this comedy for which he writes and directs, the happy troublemaker embodies Tridan Lagache, a “Club Med baby” who has spent the last fifty years in one of these famous vacation resorts in Mexico. To celebrate his half-century, this character “out of step with life“, as described by Dany Boon in the columns of Parisian, goes in search of her childhood sweetheart, Violette (Charlotte Gainsbourg). The opportunity to explore the eponymous “real life” near Paris where he discovers, as a bonus, the existence of an older half-brother Louis (Kad Merad), ready to do anything to get rid of this funny olibrius.
The surreal pitch of life for real alone deserves psychological reading. An analytical approach to which is no stranger Dany Boon. France’s most famous ch’ti director entrusts our colleagues at Parisian consult a therapist. “I will do the levels two or three times a year“, he explains. This loyal customer even boasts of having “always the same shrink“, although he is considering changing it. The problem? “We became friends, she doesn’t charge me anymore, which is less good.“There is no question of stopping the therapy, however, because”speech is important […] with time advancing.” “We try to grow without getting old, which is not always easy“, philosopher the filmmaker whom we would like to see make a comedy on psychoanalysis.
Why Dany Boon will never make a comedy about psychoanalysis
To touch psychoanalysis is to touch the intimate, according to Dany Boon, to whom we would often have offered to tell his life story. If he still hasn’t agreed to give himself up with an open heart, even in a comedic tone, it’s mainly because his mother doesn’t want it. “I respect his modesty, he argues. Kid, I used to make her laugh when she wasn’t well.” A sense of humor pegged to the body that he also takes from his dada former boxer turned truck driver: “My father […] was funny and knew people everywhere.“A spitting image of his son who also left years later to travel the roads of France to bring a little “fuel” to his spectators. Comedy, a paternal vocation?