How Grégory Montel wants to get back his "Dear Léa"

• In "Chère Léa", a forty-something kicked out by his partner decides to write to her.

• An understanding cafe owner helps her come to terms with her relationship.

• Grégory Montel, Grégory Gadebois and Anaïs Demoustier are at the center of this delicate comedy by Jérôme Bonnell.

Getting dumped hurts like hell!

In 

by Jérôme Bonnell, Grégory Montel embodies the rejected lover of a beauty played by Anaïs Demoustier.

To set things straight, he decides to write to her from the cafe in front of her house where a boss played by Grégory Gadebois sits.

This delicious comedy discovered at the Angoulême Festival celebrates love seen by people in their forties and it is very gratifying.

“My character probably likes the fact of being in love more than the woman who kicked him out,” explains Grégory Montel to

.

Deep down, he knows their story is over, but he refuses to accept it.

"Hence the missive that he refines but whose content the viewer will never discover.

Magical moments

"The man I play has seen people pass by in his cafe, which has allowed him to acquire a certain wisdom," says Grégory Gadebois at

. It is a caring presence. Benevolence is also the main ingredient of a story where tenderness does not rhyme with sentimentality. Jérôme Bonnell, director of, among others,

and Le

makes his heroes love, as does the warm Parisian setting in which they live. “Jérôme has a gift for making the little things in life, magical moments that he captures on the fly,” insists Grégory Gadebois.

This accuracy is one of the major assets of a film where the viewer feels as if he is seated with the hero to listen to him pour out his thoughts. “I think it's the first time that Jérôme Bonnell has focused a film on men and their problems,” says Grégory Montel. And I think he hits the mark when he describes how a 40-year-old can see his relationship with women. The humor, always delicate, slips over the protagonists without hurting them, sometimes highlighting original supporting roles such as a client stricken with unreason, an ex-woman with her feet on the ground or a pregnant paper maker.

“Jérôme designed his café like a western saloon,” says Gégory Montel.

People pass by, settle there and confide in it, then set off again on other adventures.

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conveys this impression of having crossed some sympathetic counterparts at the counter.

You leave the screening as you leave the establishment: your head vibrating with stories, the Grenadine heart and a smile on your lips.

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