Vincent Lindon and François Damiens make sparks

Vincent Lindon and François Damiens in "Mon Cousin" by Jan Kounen -

• Vincent Lindon plays a psychorigid CEO and François Damiens his simpleton parent in “Mon cousin” by Jan Kounen.

• This “buddy movie” is part of the tradition of Francis Veber's comedies.

• The clash between the characters is classic but tasty.

The duets à la Francis Veber, from

aux

, are essential in French cinema.

Jan Kounen plunges into the breach opened in particular by Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard to make Vincent Lindon and François Damiens dance a comic pas de deux in

.

The cohabitation between a businessman with a heart of stone and his somewhat simplistic parent, to whom he wants to sign a contract, brings two actors face to face with temperaments and careers that seem as contradictory as those of their characters.

This shock is just as much that of the actors as that of the director, absent from the big screens since

, produced eleven years ago.

The shock Jan Kounen

Jan Kounen is however not known for his comedies.

The director of

had however already tried it successfully with 

and the television satire

where he ridiculed the system with devastating humor.

He settled down for

where he takes palpable pleasure in revisiting a concept that has become a classic since

Edouard Molinaro's

in 1973 with Jacques Brel and Lino Ventura.

"The film contains the foundations of what is, for me, a comedy" à la française ", explains Jan Kounen in the press kit: an original story, built around two types who cannot be supported but who must be together, played by two great actors who are very different from each other.

»Less visually innovative than his previous films,

nevertheless ticks all the boxes for well-crafted entertainment.

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The shock of the actors

It was a long time since Vincent Lindon had not made so much laugh and this register of the "buddy movie" suits him all the better as the director has added a good dose of tenderness to the relationship between the two men.

Facing him, François Damiens plays with so much ease that he could almost send his composition of lunar ball to the cumbersome goodwill by mail, but he does this so well that we never tire of it.

The Belgian actor seems to evolve in weightlessness in the face of a Vincent Lindon, always impressive as a businessman corseted in principles who allows himself to be softened.

“I always try to add a little something extra to my films,” Jan Kounen insists.

As far as

, I hope that this little extra will give you joy and cheerfulness.

"

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