La personne aux deux personnes

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Movie
Original title La personne aux deux personnes
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2008
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Nicolas Charlet
Bruno Lavaine
script Nicolas Charlet
Bruno Lavaine
production Amandine Billot
Alain Chabat
music Nicolas Errèra
camera Laurent Dailland
cut Reynald Bertrand
occupation

La personne aux deux personnes is a 2008 French comedy film directed by Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine .

action

Jean-Christian Ranu works as an accountant at the Consortium Organizationnel de Gestion Institutionnelle et Patrimoniale, COGIP for short. One day he is involved in a car accident: singer Gilles Gabriel, who had a chart success in the 1980s, overlooks him and hits him. Gilles is killed in the accident, but his ghost slips into Ranu, who has otherwise suffered no injuries. Gilles cannot explain his new existence at first and drives the little accountant Ranu crazy with his questions and his talk. Since only Ranu can hear the voice, he increasingly lapses into self-talk to the outside world.

At a motivational seminar held by his boss and secret love, Muriel Perrache, he attracts negative attention when he discusses loudly with Gilles. In the end, he left the seminar prematurely in order to go to the hospital where the dead man was admitted on Gilles' instructions. Here he wants to get in touch with Gilles' wife, but he is quickly thrown out. When trying to break into Gilles' apartment, Ranu again sees his wife with another man. Gilles is outraged.

Ranu did not solve any tasks during the seminar, instead filling his worksheets with requests to Gilles to finally be quiet. Muriel is outraged and tells Ranu in a personal interview that he is causing too high costs and too little profit for the company. For this reason the company is considering forcibly transferring him to Bucharest . With Gilles' help, Ranu succeeds in convincing Muriel of his value to the company. In order to see his promises put into action, Muriel tells him that in a week he is to give a lecture on the indexation of capital transactions in front of the congress building, which he has been preparing for eight years. Together with Gilles, Ranu sets out to get his nervousness under control and to memorize his lecture. Since Gilles wants to work on his comeback as a singer at the same time, Ranu gets himself a piano and smokes, Gilles needs a cigarette to be creative. It is Gilles who gets Ranu to invite Muriel for coffee, but the meeting goes by in embarrassing silence. When Ranu gives her a present a little later, he misinterprets her reaction to it and kisses her after confessing his love to her. Muriel has had enough: she cancels his lecture at the congress and orders his forced transfer to Bucharest. Ranu still manages to address the congress. He packs his actually dry performance in song form and accompanies himself on the piano. The attendees are enthusiastic and Muriel's superiors hire him as the party organizer of the COGIP. Ranu is not exactly happy with this development and Gilles is also depressed, as Ranu found a very lively Gilles when he visited his supposed widow again. The Gilles in Ranu's head is now wondering who he is when he's actually still alive.

Gilles comes to terms with Ranu and gets him to invite Muriel. She actually appears and after a few uptight conversations at the end it turns out that both are in love with each other. The evening turns into a night together, even if Muriel initially concludes from Ranu's story of his life with Gilles that Ranu is gay. The morning after, Ranu wakes up and Gilles seems to have disappeared. Desperate Ranu runs into the street, where he is hit by Joey Starr's car. When he comes to, Ranu hears Joey Starr's voice in his head and Gilles is back too. Both voices begin to talk to Ranu, who begins to coordinate both. The following months run through in rapid succession. Gilles and Muriel become a couple and Muriel learns to live with the voices in Ranu's head. There are more and more of them, in the end they vote on the name of their first child and a few years later they have grown into a considerable vocal group in Ranu's head. This also has advantages, so Ranu always has an expert in his head who can give an answer to questions his children are now eight years old.

production

Alain Chabat as Gilles Gabriel in Cannes 2008

La personne aux deux personnes was filmed in Paris in 2007 . Charlotte David created the costumes and Stéphane Rozenbaum created the film . The film was released in French cinemas on June 18, 2008, where it was seen by 220,879 viewers. The film was released on DVD in France in January 2009. In Germany it has not yet been published (as of December 2013).

Alain Chabat sings the songs Flou de toi , Mise au poing and Pitou in the film ; Daniel Auteuil sings Mise au poing and COGIP! . To promote the film, the video Flou de toi by "Gilles Gabriel" was recorded on April 1, 2008 and published on Dailymotion the following day . In addition, a Gilles Gabriel page was set up on Myspace . Alain Chabat appeared as Gilles Gabriel at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival .

criticism

Le Point praised Daniel Auteuil's play, who was not afraid to be optically defaced for the role. Nevertheless, it is a shame that the film is very repetitive and too theoretical. L'Express wrote that the scenario lacks a bit of drama and the staging could have been more imaginative, but that the ensemble's exuberant enthusiasm was amusing. Le Monde described the film as risky and sometimes very funny, even if it had difficulty convincing across the entire length of the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See allocine.fr
  2. ↑ See Flou de toi on dailymotion.com
  3. ↑ a b La personne aux deux personnes . lepoint.fr, June 12, 2008.
  4. ↑ Une promotion surprenante! , allocine.fr.
  5. ↑ Eric Libiot: La Personne aux deux personnes , lexpress.fr, June 18, 2008.
  6. ^ Jacques Mandelbaum: "La Personne aux deux personnes": dans la peau de Daniel Auteuil . lemonde.fr, June 17, 2008.