Broadcast last night on France 3, Hugo Gélin’s excellent romantic comedy “Mon Inconnue” contains a movie prop that you have already seen somewhere. Did you notice it?
Broadcast last night on France 3, Mon Inconnue by Hugo Gélin is undoubtedly one of the best French romantic comedies of recent years.
Halfway between Un Jour sans fin and La Vie est belle, the film explores the romantic misadventure of Raphaël, a successful author who has become cynical and whose life as a couple begins to falter when he turns away little shortly from his wife Olivia. Everything changes one fine morning, when the young man wakes up in a universe where his beloved does not know him.
Carried by François Civil, Joséphine Japy and Benjamin Lavernhe, the third feature film by Hugo Gélin (after Comme des frères and Demain Tout Commence) begins with the meeting between the two lovers, while the protagonist is still in high school and sports a beautiful mop of hair. of teenager.
For the occasion, François Civil had to wear a hairpiece. But not just any! Indeed, as he revealed to us a year ago during a cowatch session on BEEM, the wig that can be seen on the actor’s head at the start of the film is none other than that of… Jacquouille la Rogue, unforgettable squire of Godfrey the Bold, played by Christian Clavier in Les Visiteurs.
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A mythical movie prop that François Civil has worn here upside down, and which is not the only nod to the Visitors that can be found in Mon Inconnue. Indeed, in the middle of the film, while Raphaël tries to understand how he could find himself in this alternate reality, his best friend Félix takes Jean-Marie Poiré’s film as an example to try to elucidate the mystery:
“In The Visitors, Godefroy kills Frenegonde’s father, the Duke of Puglia, with his crossbow. (…) So yes, they will get lost in the corridors of time, because this c** druid zapped the eggs quails. But basically, they go back in time to avoid this accident.”
(Re) discover our interview with the actors for “Mon Inconnue”…