What a great idea to have brought these two actors together again! Bouli Lanners and Vincent Macaigne had already met to Dog by Samuel Benchetrit. They are even more complicit in A master stroke by Rémi Bezançon, inspired by a success of Argentinian cinema. The first, Caesarized this year for The Night of 12 by Dominik Moll, embodies a painter who refuses to bow to the diktat of the commercialization of art. The second plays his best friend gallery owner, painfully trying to market his work. Their interests seem incompatible until the day they have a brilliant idea.
“I found the way the script spoke about the world of art irresistible, confides Bouli Lanners. Being a painter myself, I found the story very funny and very well seen. The actor delivers a hilarious performance as a lunar and narrow-minded artist who prefers provocation to profitability. His crises in front of potential customers or critics are all the more amusing as they are accompanied by the dismayed expressions of a hilarious Vincent Macaigne.
Artist’s work
“This role of an art dealer who tries in vain to showcase his foal while hoping to save his own stake offered many possibilities for nuances, he tells us. I hope that the bond that I built with Bouli in the city is communicated on screen. » The director of First day of the rest of your lifed‘A Happy event and Henry Pick Mystery demonstrates as always the lightness of his staging and his mastery as a director of actors. “He immediately understood our nature as actors to give us an incredible impression of freedom, insists Bouli Lanners. He balanced our performances so that each of our characters complemented each other perfectly. An irresistible scene in a bathroom demonstrates this balance between burlesque and realism.
An assistant character (played by the excellent Bastien Ughetto) adds even more spice to a very pleasing whole. “Rémi acts like a painter, in small touches, taking care not to make a stain, nor to press the line, laughs Bouli Lanners. He’s a real artist. ” With A master strokewe do not regret having made a canvas.