Elsa Zylberstein sparkles “like a bubble” of “Champagne! »

• Old friends see their friendship threatened when one of them arrives with his young fiancée.

• “Champagne!

  by Nicolas Vanier embroiders with humor and tenderness around their relationships.

• Elsa Zylberstein embodies a winemaker trying to compose between her business and her feelings.

Champagne!

, this exclamation is the title of a choral comedy where Elsa Zylberstein gives the answer to a pretty group of friends.

“Champagne is festive, and that defines Nicolas Vanier's film well, explains the actress to

.

It's a drink that makes you think of friends and sharing.

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Sylvie Testud, François-Xavier Demaison, Stéphane de Groodt and Eric Elmosnino toast happily with her.

But the complicity between these friends who have been dating for thirty years will be put to the test.

One of them arrives with his new fiancée whom the others struggle to accept.

“Nicolas has perfectly grasped the mixture of cowness and tenderness uniting people who know each other by heart,” insists Elsa Zylberstein.

Generous and carnal

The actress finds a golden role as a winegrower, a character for whom she did not hesitate to put her hand in the vineyard.

“I took lessons to learn how champagne is made,” she explains.

I even borrowed her wardrobe from Elise, the winemaker who was teaching me.

It's one of the great pleasures of being an actress to learn this stuff.

We totally believe in this woman, straight in her boots, capable of firmness as well as fragility between the worries caused by her vineyard on one side, her loves on the other.

Nicolas Vanier, known for animal films like

or

, tries his hand at tender humor between humans.

“He had another type of animal to manage with our group of friends, laughs Elsa Zylberstein, and he did wonderfully.

Just because the actors get along in real life doesn't make it on screen.

It was because Nicolas was there that the miracle happened.

We were touched by grace.

One thinks of Les

by Guillaume Canet or

by Jean-Marie Poiré when entering the very middle of this close-knit group.

“I was like a bubble during filming, remembers Elsa Zylberstein.

Nicolas is one of those popular filmmakers who knows how to film France and its lands in a generous and carnal way.

His love for actors feeds the characters.

That's why audiences feel included in this fantasy about friendship and the support it provides in times of adversity.

"Everyone can recognize themselves in this film, in the moments of joy, as in the pettiness of which we are all capable" insists Elsa Zylberstein.

sparkles pleasantly.

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