“For me, it's the order of the supernatural”: Alexandre Astier has always admired this legend of French cinema

Alexandre Astier never hid to be one of the greatest fans of actor Louis de Funès, considered one of the most famous comics in French cinema. And this admiration is boundless, as the director-author-Musician entrusted a few years ago The Cinémathèque During a retrospective devoted to the interpreter of Cruchot in the gendarme of Saint Tropez:

“It's an author”

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“(…) People say: 'de Funès does grimaces', but we have nothing to do with the grimaces of de Funès, it is certainly not where his talent is. (…) I am always hypnotized by Funès, even in a film which in my opinion flats the customer a little in the wrong sense of hair, rather than any TV Author.

But what is De Funès's secret ingredient?

Astier thinks he has pierced the mystery:

“From Funès, for me, it is the absolute” King “of” when “I give things. He [est] supernatural in the rhythm of his ruptures. That is to say that we have the eye on Gensac, Lefebvre, anyone is launching a replica which is supposed to arouse a breakdown at home, and in fact we do not have time to look at the effect it makes him, because he has already had the 'off' effect when you had your eyes [sur l’autre acteur]. And that, for me, is the order of the supernatural. “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6W9OE6DPW

“If someone was like that in life, we would not understand how he works, we would take him for a patient. In the cinema, it gives this species in perpetual advance that he has on the one who looks, and who makes the one who looks is always late for a notch. He puts the audience late, of Funès. He forces people to run after it, all the time.”

Alexandre Astier is so fan that he dedicated his Kaamelott series to Louis de Funès and does not hide from having tried to “prick a few little things” in “Hoping it doesn't see too much”.