Jean-Paul Rouve: "Poelvoorde and Garcia are very big actors"

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Jean-Paul Rouve signs a fourth touching and funny film, Lola and her brothers.

Astonishing man that Jean-Paul Rouve. Able to wallow in a comedy as busting as The Tuche and to sign a subtle, fresh and sensitive work as his fourth achievement (after Without weapons, hatred or violence in 2007, When I'm little in 2012 and Memories in 2014), Lola and her brothers . All while not seeing the difference between the two …

"It's exactly the same thinge , He loose. Why are Tuche successful? Because they exist. Without humanity, all sounds false, plated. For me, humanity is 80% of the work. After, the paths differ, but we go to the same place. Moreover, I am as touched by a film of Maurice Pialat as by another Gérard Oury. The only difference is that comedy is the type of movie that needs the most time to feel its quality. A successful comedy gets better with time, and more than other movies. Because time takes him off the nail polish to bring out much deeper things. The ultimate example is the melodramas of silent cinema or Chaplin's films. The former are irregardable while the latter are still making children laugh today. "

The family is the central theme of your films …

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