• A young security guard comes to replace the right arm of an aging actor.

  • These two forces of nature will tame each other.

  • "Robust" is one of the great discoveries of Critics' Week 2021.

It's not every day that Gérard Depardieu finds himself confronted with as impressive as him!

Robuste

by Clémence Meyer, discovered at the Cannes Critics' Week in 2021, offers the joyful confrontation between an aging actor played by our national Gégé and a young security guard played by Déborah Lukumuena, Caesarized in 2017 for

Divines

by Houda Benyamina.

When she replaces the star's assistant, the young woman does not suspect that she will be dealing with such a strong party.

When he sees a 25-year-old girl arrive, the actor does not expect to come across such a personality.

"It's beautiful to confront this man who seems to have lived 150 lives with this woman who seems so combative and to understand that inside these two beings something else is playing out," says filmmaker Clémence Meyer in the file. Press.

Mistrust and hostility will give way to understanding and friendship.

Learn to let your guard down

This shock that one might think brutal leads to a story overflowing with tenderness revealing the beating hearts of the protagonists.

If the theme of the film is not original, a delicate staging wins the support for a perfectly complementary film duo.

The fears and desires of their respective ages gradually appear, counterbalancing the imposing side of their physique.

Gérard Depardieu confirmed in

Maigret

 by Patrice Leconte

that he is not afraid to show his flaws.

Déborah Lukumuena does the same in

Robuste

where everyone ends up letting their guard down for the greatest benefit of the viewer.

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