![]() ![]() “I needed someone whose absence would be terribly powerful,” explained Baer later, during a Q&A session after the film premiere. ![]() As for Gérard Depardieu, his character can’t seem to make up his mind whether he wants to go to the lunch or not. A newcomer, played by Poelvoorde, turns up but is not welcome, and spends the whole time at the bar. “Adieu Paris!” tells the story of eight friends, mostly in their seventies, who meet up for an annual lunch that has become a ritual over the decades. You can give Poelvoorde and Damiens a sentence like “Do you want a coffee?” and this magic occurs, you see it in their eyes. “There are moments in comedy where there’s something in the air: It’s the way it’s interpreted that’s funny, not the sentence itself. “I would love to make a film where you would get the feeling, if you saw it one evening, and then you watched it again the next day, that it was an entirely different movie because the actors wouldn’t be giving the same performance. I love that “live’ feeling,” said Baer, who himself became a household name in France thanks to a now-famous monologue he improvised during the shooting of Alain Chabat’s “Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra” (2002). If they succeed in making you believe they are improvising that’s because they are so talented. “I spent all day with Benoît Poelvoorde yesterday, he has this amazing energy, he’s bigger than life, there is so much generosity in him, he’s exhausting… and exhausted,” he joked about the popular Belgian actor. I am fascinated by people who are full of pain and joy,” Baer said. I love it when I see someone who moves me, who upsets me. I guess it’s easier for me because I choose characters that are out of the ordinary. “Some directors are able to take everyday life and transcend it. Their riotous song and dance numbers throughout their stay delighted audiences. Baer brings together a stellar cast in “Adieu Paris!” including Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Arditi, Jean-Francois Stévenin – who passed away in July and to whom the film is dedicated – and Belgian duo Benoît Poelvoorde and François Damiens, who came with him to Lyon for the film’s launch.
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