• "This music does not play for anyone" by Samuel Benchétrit brings together a host of stars to embody lost people who discover art in various forms.

  • François Damiens is touching there as a mafia docker who writes verses.

  • He notably gives the reply to Vanessa Paradis in this film shown in Cannes and Angoulême.

François Damiens embodies a big poet arm and that suits him well!

In

This music does not play for anyone

, a choral film by Samuel Benchétrit presented in Cannes in the Cannes premiere section then in Angoulême, the Belgian actor gives the reply to Vanessa Paradis, JoeyStarr, Valéria Bruni-Tedeshi, Bouli Lanners, Gustave Kervern and Ramzy Bedia .

"I knew some better than others, but the chemistry was there from day one," he told

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.

This complicity is perceptible in a comedy filmed in Dunkirk where the team spent several weeks.

A music all in tenderness

The spectator is delighted to see him in such good company in a role that one feels written to measure for him. "Saying texts written by Samuel Benchétrit is such a treat that you don't want to improvise," says François Damiens. Music is present in his dialogues as in the way he directs his actors. "The Belgian actor proves that one can be a gangster who does not hesitate to make the powder talk while writing verses for his beloved (Constance Rousseau), a supermarket cashier a bit taken aback by childish texts that she struggles to understand.

The director's tenderness for his lost characters saved by art, theater or poetry emerges between two bursts of laughter.

Seeing François Damiens explaining his poems to a dumbfounded Ramzy Bedia is an irresistible moment.

"Samuel Benchétrit knows how to reveal the part of sensitivity that there is in each of us", insists François Damiens.

This fragility is one of the major assets of

This music does not play for anyone

who resonates permanently in the heart of the spectator.

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  • Dunkirk

  • Interview

  • Cannes film festival

  • Francois Damiens

  • 20 minutes video

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