Virginie Efira and Tahar Rahim form the unique tandem of Don Juan, a musical freely inspired by Molière’s play, by director and screenwriter Serge Bozon. Discover the trailer for the film which will be released on May 23, 2022.
Tahar Rahim and Virginie Efira in a musical! In this new adaptation of Molière’s classic, Don Juan is no longer the seducer we know but a man obsessed with a single woman: the one who abandoned him on his wedding day. Desperation makes him see his former companion almost everywhere, which disturbs him all the more when he is called upon to play Don Juan.
Four years after Madame Hyde with Isabelle Huppert, for which he was already revisiting a classic of literature, Serge Bozon therefore returns with an astonishing musical comedy that promises sparks between its two main actors.
Discover the trailer of the film which will be presented in the Cannes Première selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.
With this Don Juan, director Serge Bozon wanted to get out of the register of genre films: La France (2007) had a relationship to a war film, Madame Hyde (2018) to a fantasy film and Tip Top (2013) to a detective film: “For this love story, I found it easier to take a starting point that everyone knows, and so I suggested to Axelle Ropert, my co-screenwriter, to work on Don Juan. At that time, Axelle was very invested in what was going on around #Metoo and we agreed on the idea of an inverted Don Juan.”
An inverted Don Juan
“Instead of conquering everyone, he is abandoned (…). Rather than a Don Juan who seduces all women, he is obsessed with a single woman, whom he sees multiplying everywhere. And he does not stop being thrown by the women he approaches, thinking he recognizes her in this way. Normally, a Don Juan is victorious, cynical and manipulative; there he is a loser, sincere and helpless“, explains the director in the notes of intent of the film.
Don Juan by Serge Bozon will be released alongside its Cannes presentation, from Monday May 23, 2022.