La “promo” served on a set… While the Orpea affair continues to feed the media, Kev Adams continues, incidentally, a tour of France of cinemas in order to present his new film: Retirement home, by director Thomas Gilou, expected on screens on February 16. The synopsis: Sentenced to 300 hours of community service after a big mistake, the young Milann (Kev Adams) joins the staff of an nursing home with inconvenient residents, who however will soon take him under their wing. Co-written and co-produced by the 30-year-old comedian, the comedy revolves around themes that are, at the moment, the sad news of seniors: abuse, abuse of weakness, profits made on the backs of vulnerable people . Pure coincidence, of course, the scenario dating back at least three years.
Today, the actor comes to defend his baby, shot alongside octogenarian actors: Marthe Villalonga (89 years old), Mylène Demongeot (86 years old), Daniel Prévost (82 years old), Jean-Luc Bideau (81 years old), in the middle of which interfered the “young” Gérard Depardieu (73 years old). Started on December 21, 2021 in Montataire (Oise), the preview tour will visit, in all, 118 cinemas, sometimes at the rate of four rooms per day, as on this Wednesday February 2: screened in Romorantin (Loir-et- Cher) at 2 p.m., the film is then shown in Vierzon (Cher) at 3 p.m., then in Blois (Loir-et-Cher) at 4 p.m., finally in Saran (Loiret) at 8 p.m., “in the presence of Kev Adams” Everytime. If he does not have the gift of ubiquity, the former leading role of New Adventures of Aladdin (2015) can count on a good driver to drive it from one session to another, at its beginning or at its end.
Not with the back of the spoon
In the room, like that afternoon at Cap Ciné, in Blois: many teenagers or ex-teenagers who have remained faithful to the hero of the series Soda (2011-2015). But also a certain number of health professionals working or having worked in nursing homes and in geriatric services. One of them, Bruno, is the first to speak during the mini-debate following the screening, to say that he himself experienced some of the situations, sometimes more tragic than comic, shown in the film. , “within a group other than Orpea”. Kev Adams, who was notably inspired by various facts having had as a framework retirement homes, does not go there with the back of the spoon to castigate the corporation of the bosses of Ehpad: “Some of them bastards, who show a kindness on the face of it so that we have confidence in them. » Applause in the room.
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