Meeting with Les Bodin’s, “The Daft Punk of humor”
They go into a cinema, and Thailand on TV. Vincent Dubois and Jean-Christian Fraiscinet confide in Première.
After Wedding at the Bodin’s in 2008 and Amélie in the land of Bodin’s In 2010, two very small comedies that broke profitability records, the funniest peasants in France had a nice success at the end of 2021 with Bodin’s in Thailandto review this Friday evening on M6.
The pitch? Maria Bodin, an old Roublarde and authoritarian farm of 87, has to face a new ordeal: her great nigud of son, Christian, 50, has lost the taste of life. Following the advice of the psychiatrist, who advises the change of scenery, the mother Bodin therefore resigned herself to breaking her piggy bank to pay holidays to her son … in Thailand! When the mother and son Bodin flies away, for the first time, more than ten thousand kilometers from their native terroir, the shock is huge: club hotel, tourists, white sandy beaches and other exotic massages, they clearly do not have the manual … not easy to disorient peasants! The Bodin’s then embarked on a incredible road movie throughout the country, with only luggage their audacity, their heart and their peasant sense.
Wedding for the Bodin’s: the most profitable film of 2008 after welcome to the Ch’tis
1.6 million spectators at the box office As the French public barely left Cavid, Bodin’s in Thailand Has recently a new suite: Maria and Christian Bodin’s “”go into a spin“” Since Wednesday at the cinema, and once again, it works strong: the actor of Frédéric Forestier (My chick, kept hunt…) Attracted 130,000 curious people in 564 rooms from France on the day of its release. First has just met its creators and interpreters, Vincent Dubois And Jean-Christian Fraiscinetto talk about their success on the small and the big screen, and on the stage, the duo making, in parallel with the films, room fills with their shows. At the heart of this interview, they notably evoke their report to television, to their “competitors” such as Tuche or fame. Selected pieces:
“We have never really run after TV. We are people in the field, artisans of the show. We started with us, in our Center region, Jean-Christian in Berry and I in Touraine. TV is formatted for stand-up, fast sketches, machine-gunned valve. We, we need a slightly longer narration to make our characters live. It is little compatible with the TV rhythm.
“With these Bodin’s characters whose envelope is caricatured, we must be the most sincere and just in our game. If we choose the bad shows with these characters, it can smash us.”
The Bodin’s in Thailand (2021)
“We absolutely wanted to keep our way of working. Since the success of Bodin’s in Thailandproducers often push us: Must do like Tucherelease a film every two years! ‘ But no ! We need it to mature. We are led by what we say, not by the calendar. If the next film is to be a closed door, it will be it. We don’t want to become a movie factory. “
“Thailand was around 6 million (budget, editor’s note), and The Bodin’s Go on a spin around 9. But when you look at the result on the screen with all the costumes, the figuration … it’s crazy what we can do! There are films at 20 million for which we are still looking for where the money has gone. We pay attention to each euro, and I do not have the impression that it is expensive for nothing. Maybe it comes from our rural roots. “
“The Bodin’s monopolizes us a lot. It is not at all a regret because we will not have enough a career to make them live everything we want to make them live. We decline our characters: in the theater, in TV shows, in the cinema, in comics too. It is very abundant, we go from one to the other, so there is no weariness.
The Bodin’s go into a spin (2025)
“We have been pushed a thousand times to take known actors. From the first films. We were even offered more money to have famous heads. But our characters are rural people, they are anchored in reality. Put a Fabrice Luchini or a Catherine Deneuve next to Maria or Christian, it would break everything. ‘Monsters’ come out. It is an artistic choice that we assume completely. Nothing to do with the system … It is rather we who try to protect our characters. “
“We have the good side of the celebrity without the disadvantages. Do you know how the media called us at one point? The Daft Punk of humor. It’s funny, right? Behind the masks, these two guys were known throughout France, all over the world and rarely made emissions with an open face. Well, we are not at the point of the Daft Punk.) But that allows us to have a normal life.
“It is essential. To write our characters, we need to observe normal life and someone who would be cut off from real necessarily speaks about it less well.”
To read the maintenance of Bodin’s in its entirety, go to newsstands: it is at the heart of First n ° 560with Mickey 17 On the cover. Here is the trailer of Bodin’s go into a spinright now in the cinema:
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