Guy (2018)

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Movie
Original title Guy
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2018
length 101 minutes
Rod
Director Alex Lutz
script Alex Lutz
production Oury Milshtein
music Vincent Blanchard ,
Romain Greffe
camera Mathieu Le Bothlan
cut Alexandre Donot ,
Alexandre Westphal
occupation

Guy is a French tragicomedy by Alex Lutz , which was shown as a closing film in the side series Semaine internationale de la critique at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2018 and celebrated its world premiere there.

action

After his mother dies, the aspiring young journalist Gauthier finds a letter. This suggests that he could be the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular 72-year-old French singer and variety artist who celebrated the high point of his career in the 1970s with the big hit Caress . Jamet is currently releasing his latest album and is going on tour. Gauthier therefore decides to follow him with pen and camera in hand, in his everyday life, but also when performing at concerts in the French provinces. Guy Jamet himself agrees that the reporter will follow him every day, like on a reality show. The result is a documentary portrait of Jamet.

Jamet still has a good relationship with his ex-wife Anne-Marie. She was the love of his life and also the woman for whom he wrote his song Dadidou . Guy currently spends his life with Sophie, a TV star who is much younger than him. They live in a small, secluded country house near Aix-en-Provence, where he has a couple of horses to ride. Gauthier had envisioned a much more glamorous setting for him. Gauthier and the die-hard smoker Jamet visit a strip club in Cannes, where the aged star explains to him that sex and alcohol have prevented him from using drugs. Gauthier not only films Jamet at home, but tours with him all over France, where he introduces his audience to hits like Passionately , Tendresses and his big hit Caress .

production

Director, screenwriter and actor Alex Lutz in April 2015

The director was the French actor, theater director and comedian Alex Lutz , who also wrote the screenplay and can be seen in the film in the lead role of Guy. Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter describes the result as a mockumentary , a good-humored tour de force and a crowd-pleaser. However, given all the jokes and references geared towards French, the film is more likely to be something for a French audience.

Lutz himself plays the eponymous Guy Jamet in the film. For this purpose, Lutz, who was 39 years old at the time of filming, but plays a man in his early seventies in the film, was aged by decades. Tom Dingler took on the role of Gauthier. Brigitte Roüan plays Gauthier's mother. Élodie Bouchez plays Guy's ex-wife Anne-Marie at a young age, later played by the actress-singer Dani. Pascale Arbillot stars as Guy's current girlfriend, Sophie. Michel Drucker plays himself as a moderator.

Production started in October 2017. The recordings were made in Paris and the surrounding area and in Aix en Provence , where Guy Jamet lives with his girlfriend Sophie in the film.

The film celebrated its world premiere on May 16, 2018 as part of the Semaine internationale de la critique side series at the Cannes International Film Festival . When asked how Guy Jamet, the character he played, would have behaved at the Cannes Film Festival, Lutz fantasized to Renaud Baronian von Le Parisien that he would have liked the festival very much. Even though it wasn't shown in the film, Guy owns a small apartment in Cannes that he bought with his ex-wife, and he goes down to the festival every year just to see movies.

The film was released in French cinemas on August 29, 2018 and was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival at the end of September and beginning of October 2018 .

reception

Reviews

In her review, Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter notes that the film could be a turning point in Alex Lutz 's career. The actor, who is known for creating characters solely through his body language and facial expression, also enjoys the advantage of costumes (rigorously black on stage, with a gold chain around his neck) and excellent make-up in the film make him a man in his seventies. In fact, Lutz looks as natural with his head of white hair and his constantly open mouth like the singer "Guy Jamet", who leads careless viewers to believe that it is a much older actor who plays the role. Some might even try to find Guy Jamet on Wikipedia . Jean-Francois Lixon also notes that the man we see in the first few seconds of the film could be Alex Lutz's father. With wrinkles, tired facial features and sagging skin on his neck, the actor's transformation is downright spectacular, that you wouldn't see it if you didn't know.

Liberation's Luc Chessel describes Guy as a face film and a fake documentary , a fiction that takes on the life of this old popular singer and his comeback. Gauthier used an excuse to approach him and get to know him. Chessel thinks, Guy Jamet, sometimes seems like an intelligently designed and creepy mixture of Claude François and Klaus Kinski and like a pure riddle: “This kitschy Sphinx, old glory without rule, tells of his life, which has been lived a thousand times [. ..] and remains unfathomable to those who are filming. ”Chessel speaks of a mockumentary filter.

Nathalie Simon from Le Figaro thinks that the actual comedian Alex Lutz, who is now acting as director, is also delivering a breathtaking performance as an actor in his second feature film, and that his Guy Jamet has something of Alain Delon .

Often the lengths at the end of the film were criticized, which could have been left out.

Awards

César 2019

Prix ​​Lumières 2019

  • Nomination for Best Film (Alex Lutz)
  • Award for Best Actor (Alex Lutz)
  • Award for the best film music (Vincent Blanchard and Romain Greffe)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/guy-1112798
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Nathalie Simon: Alex Lutz brilliantly ringard dans 'Guy'. In: Le Figaro. 17th May 2018.
  3. ↑ challenges.fr
  4. ↑ a b Deborah Young: 'Guy': Film Review: Cannes 2018. In: The Hollywood Reporter, May 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ studiocanal.com
  6. ^ François Léger: Cannes 2018: découvrez la sélection de la Semaine de la critique . In: premiere.fr, April 16, 2018.
  7. ^ Renaud Baronian: Alex Lutz à Cannes: "Appelez-moi Guy". In: Le Parisien, May 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Guy. In: allocine.fr. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  9. ↑ Guy. In: filmfesthamburg.de Retrieved on September 11, 2018.
  10. ↑ Jean-Francois Lixon: Cannes 2018: "Guy," l'exploit d'Alex Lutz en vieux chanteur ringard. In: culturebox.francetvinfo.fr, May 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ Luc Chessel: Cannes 2018: "Guy", yéyé dans les orties. In: Liberation, May 16, 2018.
  12. ^ Rhonda Richford: France's Cesar Awards Nominations Unveiled. In: The Hollywood Reporter, January 23, 2019.
  13. ↑ 24e cérémonie des Lumières de la presse internationale: Les nominations. In: academiedeslumieres.com. Retrieved January 18, 2019 (PDF)
  14. ↑ Rhonda Richford: Lumiere Awards: Jacques Audiard's 'Sisters Brothers' Takes Top Prize. In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 4, 2019.