Saturday, in "Clap!", The actor Benjamin Lavernhe evoked the films which marked his life.
Keeping a great memory of "Titanic", he shares his passion for the filmography of the Farrelly brothers.
On the other hand, he confides that he never saw "Apocalypse Now" or was bored in front of "Under the sun of satan".
INTERVIEW
He is playing one of the most anticipated comedies of the moment. In
Le Discours
, directed by Laurent Tirard, Benjamin Lavernhe puts his tongue-in-cheek humor at the service of the adaptation of Fabcaro's novel.
The member of the French comedy, also in the cast of the successful comedy this fall,
Antoinette in the Cévennes
, is also a film enthusiast.
On Europe 1, in "Clap!", He agreed to tell about the films that marked his life.
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Your first memory of cinema?
I think it must have been cartoons.
I was also traumatized by
White Croc, along with
Ethan Hawke.
It is a crossing of the far north, and at this moment, a whole village falls across a frozen lake, and at that moment, a coffin opens with a dead man coming out of the coffin, since they carry their dead on their sleigh.
And the hero does not manage to rise to the surface, blocked by this corpse.
It traumatized me.
I came home with the babysitter and cried all the tears in my body until my parents arrived.
Your best memory in the dining room?
It was in adolescence ... The great popular adventures, like
Titanic
, that shocked me.
I saw him twice at the movies.
And the films that I have seen twice in the cinema are rare.
I also went to see
Amélie Poulain
and
The Mask
twice
, with Jim Carrey.
For me, those are three great films.
Your worst memory in the gym?
It's
Meetings with Joe Black
, with Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt.
I felt a solid, deep boredom, which surprised me myself.
I wondered why I was so bored.
Besides, I think I left the room in the middle of the session, it is the only time.
Besides, I thought I heard it was pretty good.
I was very ill-disposed, but I think I was also disappointed to be so bored in the movies, when it was my passion.
Your craziest session?
The
Blues Brothers
2000
.
The room was empty, we were with only friends and we left in a fight of candy and popcorn in the four corners of the room.
We got under the seats, we bombed ourselves ... It was a kind of chaos in the middle of the session, with the film continuing.
The film that you would have liked to see in the cinema?
Maybe
2001, A Space Odyssey
.
There are films that I think I could not have missed in theaters like
Avatar
or
The Revenant
.
People who see it on the plane, I'm sick of it for them.
The movie you would like to live in?
When I was watching
Back to the Future
, with proms, the 1960s, rock, all that time, plus a little bit of the future ... Combing your hair back and putting on a perfecto, eating ice cream in the restaurants "diners" in town, I think that would make me very happy.
The cult movie you've never seen?
There is a bunch of them, it's my drama.
For example:
Once upon a time in America
,
Apocalypse Now
.
And yet I am only describing the surface of the iceberg to you.
A movie you love, but are ashamed to admit it?
Titanic
.
I think it's a masterpiece, but the films that have had immense success, it's trivial to say that we liked them.
So I'm afraid to sound like a midinette when I say that I liked
Titanic
, that I saw it several times, that I thought about it for 15 days, that I was in love with Kate Winslet.
Which movie have you seen the most?
The King and the Bird
, that wonderful movie, when I was little.
Being a Jim Carrey fan, I must have seen
The Mask
or
Dumb & Dumber
quite a few times
.
Dumb & t Dumber
is a masterpiece.
I must have seen him twenty times.
A masterpiece that you hate?
I saw
Under the Sun of Satan
, by Maurice Pialat with Gérard Depardieu and I was definitely bored.
It is one of those masterpieces in the history of cinema where sometimes we miss it.
I watched
Eight and a Half
of Fellini during the lockdown, and I was also terribly bored.
The most beautiful movie scene?
I saw
Alain Corneau's
Black Series
last week, with Patrick Dewaere.
And the scene where he is cornered, where Myriam Boyer accuses him of lying and tells him to tell the truth ... He starts screaming because he is caught by the throat of his lie, and he begins to make a crazy stuff.
It is one of the most beautiful scenes that I have seen recently.
Which movie makes you laugh the most?
The three brothers
.
I saw it two or three times in the cinema and then bought it.
I even bought the soundtrack.
I was listening to music and I think it was one of the movies that made me laugh the most.
And Didier Bourdon is an absolute genius.
Which movie makes you cry the most?
I have a memory of deep sorrow when I left the room, where I cried like a baby when I left: it
's Clint Eastwood's
Million Dollar Baby
.
It was Clint Eastwood who composed the soundtrack, it is often very simple piano, and it tears the heart out.
I also watched excerpts from
On the Road to Madison
, and he's a crying machine, this guy.
Which movie would you recommend to your best friend?
I bought
Dumb & t Dumber
and
Fou d'Irène
from Léopold Legrand, a director I just worked with.
He hadn't seen either, I was outraged.
To me, the Farrely brothers are gods.
What about your worst enemy?
Meeting with Joe Black
.
Otherwise I can recommend a sublime film to elevate it, make it better, like
La vie est belle
, by Roberto Benigni.