Eight years after the incarceration of a man for murder, Garlat, a cop camped by Pierre Arditi, faces the gray areas of his investigation and… his failing memories. Troubled memory, Tuesday September 20 at 9:10 p.m. on France 3.
As he is told in the film, has your character always been honest?
Pierre Arditi: Probably not. But he thinks he did the right thing. He is unfortunately confronted with something that we can all fear: the loss of memory. And he locks himself in his obsession…
He is accused of having deliberately fabricated evidence to indict someone. Why doesn’t he remember?
He created a wall between himself and what really happened. Does he have an imaginary illness or is he trying to isolate himself? The answer is not so simple.
How did you experience the scene where you wander in the marshes of the Bay of Somme?
A floor had been built at the bottom so that I could walk without sinking. I was scared. A guy in overalls was there to catch me just in case.
Nicolas (played by Nicolas Grandhomme), his son, must resume the investigation that Garlat had led. Isn’t the heart of the story rather the confrontation between a father and his son?
Yes. They oppose each other and eventually the son becomes his father’s father by caring for him due to his memory impairment.
Since you work a lot and learn a lot of texts, you are not likely to have this kind of problem, right?
Losing my memory is my great fear. Memory is a muscle and I pump up. I am a memory bodybuilder. All it takes is for a vessel to burst in the brain, and it’s over! My father died of Alzheimer’s disease, he was almost 100 years old…
Another father-son relationship, the one you have in Alphonse with Jean Dujardin. What will this Nicolas Bedos series look like, which you are shooting for Prime Video and which should be available in 2023?
It’s stripping. The father I play is a man who has “been able” a lot, but who “can’t” anymore and who sends his son to the front line. This is the third time I have worked with Nicholas Bedos. I remind her of her father, Guy. And me, I look at him as a son that I didn’t have.
Which Clemenceau are you in the fiction that you are going to start for France 2, according to the book by Nathalie Saint-Cricq?
He is a man at the end of his life. He then had a romantic but platonic relationship with his editor, to whom he said: “I will help you live, you will help me die.”
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