A hit man who is afraid of blood. François Damiens is irresistible in The partners in crime of Cécilia Rouaud where he has to deal with a couple of neighbors with a kindness a bit invasive played by William Lebghil and Laura Felipin.
“For me, the challenge was to try to humanize this character, confides François Damiens to 20 minutes. And that we realize that, even if he is someone very dark, he still has a little blue inside. This comedy discovered at the Alpe D’Huez Festival (where William Lebghil was rewarded) gives pride of place to a monolithic character that the actor describes as “a fridge” who ends up humanizing himself.
An ode to kindness
Seeing him fall unconscious as soon as he sees a drop of hemoglobin makes this trained assassin hilarious, but causes him a lot of trouble practicing his profession to the point that he is soon totally undesirable for the organization that employs him. “I’m not really a fan of thrillers, explains François Damiens, but what interested me here is that we see the internal kitchen, what goes on in the head of a killer and what his daily. »
Director Cécilia Rouaud plays the black humor card but she also has some surprises in store. “The film mixes thrillers, poetry, comedy and the absurd, insists François Damiens, but it is above all an ode to kindness, a value that is too often considered a weakness. It is with great pleasure that the spectator lets himself be carried away by this accomplice trio.