Great race (Canal+) – Dany Boon: "This movie is a tribute to Line Renaud."

Christian Carion’s nostalgic dramatic comedy Une belle Course received great applause at its presentation at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival on August 23, 2022. Line Renaud shared her feelings publicly: “ Madeleine is my best role. This movie is a bit like my life story. “The next day, during a face-to-face interview, he told us about his joy in filming again with Dany Boon: “ Playing with it was the icing on the cake. We never miss an opportunity to get together. “The fact that the actress who played her mother twice in Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis and La Ch’tite Famille is with her makes the film very valuable in her eyes. : “ He is the son in my heart. »

youth memories

Inside nice race Dany Boon plays Charles, the taxi driver who drives Madeleine, an elderly woman who wants to see the important places in her life one last time before she goes to the nursing home… He joined before his role was announced: ” This movie is a tribute to Line “, she admits quite simply. This trip through Paris will bring back memories. Some are from the actress’s: “ I grew up in a modest family. I had four years of war and the arrival of the Americans. We were all crazy about GIs, me included. I was young and I remember. »

A note from Las Vegas

The complicity of the two on-screen stars is fueled by their endless affection for each other over the past fifteen years. ” Dany Boon, I saw Line when I was little, came to sing at the Nieulles festival in Armentières’ main square, says Dany Boon. It showed the boy that I came from a working-class background like him and that it was possible to get there. “A few years later, I’m fine, the future director of Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, everything is fine, even EDF and La Poste… La Poste started to get people talking with his let’s talk sketches. : ” At my first Olympia at 26, I had a rather unique moment when I received a telegram from Line. He wrote to me from Las Vegas: “I know you are a successful little young man from Armentières.” He told me shit about Olympia! A great race also portends the end of life. Did Line and Dany talk about it together? ” I’m not afraid of death, but I don’t want to suffer either. “The godmother of the Right to Die with Honor Society (ADMD), insists.” My career begins with this beautiful character of Madeleine. joking. He reads a lot of screenplays but prefers not to say anything about them: Time will show us ! »

A great race, Tuesday, June 13th at 21:10 on Canal+

Isabelle Magnier