Juror in Gérardmer, Gringe waits to be "snatched up by the films" he sees

• Gringe, rapper, actor and writer, is also a big movie buff.

• He is part of the jury of the Gérardmer Festival and delights in front of the selection.

• He began to like genre cinema from an early age.

Gringe (pronounced “Grainje”) is not just a rapper, actor and author: he is also a lover of genre cinema who is part of the jury chaired by Bérénice Bejo and Michel Hazanavicius at the Gérardmer Festival.

"I'm waiting to be caught up in the movies", explains the forties to

.

Accomplice of Orelsan for the film

and the duo

, he also signed an excellent solo album called

, and a fascinating book,

, on his schizophrenic brother.

This man-orchestra who claims to be often lazy has bitten his teeth into the selection of the festival.

“It reminds me of my young years when I went to borrow films from video clubs, which was the only way to discover rare films in the provinces,” he recalls.

Cinephile from an early age

Right now, Gringe is obsessed with filmmaker Alex Garland, whose

released last June.

“The images in this film haunt me,” he admits.

I would love to work with Alex Garland because I'm sure I would learn a lot from him.

I would go so far as to bring the coffees.

While waiting to play baristas for the English director, Gringe is delighted to meet Kim Jee-woon, to whom the event pays tribute and whose

marked him.

“Korean cinema fascinates me with its radicalism,” he says.

I like the cinema which shakes.

Like that of Michael Haneke (notably

) which traumatized him.

“I'm no longer afraid of the cinema, but I must say that I started early and strong, he laughs.

As a kid, I pretended to be sick to skip class and watch films like

or

, which I discovered when I was ten years old.

I was terrified but I loved it.

He expects a lot from

by M. Night Shyamalan, which will close the festival on Sunday evening.

Screenwriter but not filmmaker

If Gringe loves cinema, he does not see himself going behind the camera.

"I'm lazy," he said.

The shootings in which I took part proved to me that it was a job of madness.

Having an eye everywhere is not for me, I prefer writing.

Gringe exaggerates by pretending to be lazy, he's working on a new book that could be correlated to an album.

"I get bored quickly so I need to multiply the projects," he admits.

The most recent is to go on stage with the jury this Sunday evening at the time of the Gérardmer prize list.

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