Back in theaters with a new comedy, Dany Boon confides in the flaw at the origin of his artistic vocation. Or why he and his mother were banished from their own family. Narrative.
This Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Dany Boon returns to the cinema with a new comedy, life for real. This tender and surreal farce follows the tribulations of Tridan Lagache (Dany Boon), a lunar character who lived for almost half a century in a Club Med in Mexico. Until he decides to go in search of his childhood sweetheart, Violette (Charlotte Gainsbourg), for her fiftieth birthday. Arrived in Paris, Tridan then discovers this “real life” which has failed him so much all these years. The opportunity also for him to unexpectedly meet his older half-brother, Louis (Kad Merad), ready to do anything to get rid of this cumbersome individual. A “character out of step with life“projected into”a world unsuited to our sensitivity“explains the director to our colleagues from Parisian.
If it is now one of the most famous Ch’tis in France, Dany Boon is convinced to come of a much more exotic destination: the Moon. At least of a “middle of proles“between a dad truck driver of Algerian origin and an mom housekeeper, meanwhile of French origin. This double identity has also caused many problems on the mother’s side, his family rejecting his mother”because she had married a Kabyle“. The 56-year-old actor remembers with pain: “They were racist. I tried to understand why they didn’t want to see me.“A rejection all the more striking as his great-grandfather, a former soldier in the Great War (1914-1918), was his childhood idol.
Why did Dany Boon admire his great-grandparents so much?
People “so open”. This is in what terms Dany Boon remembers his great-grandparents. “He was a kind of [Jean] Gabin who had a butcher shop. He had been injured, left for dead with shrapnel.“Coming back from the front with a club foot and a disability pension that he persisted in refusing, Dany Boon’s great-grandfather simply wanted “to remain standing in his butcher’s shop“. Years later, his great-grandson would pay homage to him on his stage debut by wearing his pants”with a shorter side, for clubfoot“. A way of maintaining the memory of a parent who left too soon with whom Dany Boon, as a child, conversed, his eyes turned towards the sky.