Soup aux cabbage/Jacques Villeret funny tragic: special evening, 20 years after his death
The cult film, with also Louis de Funès and Jean Carmet, will return this Tuesday evening to France 3.
This January 28, 202 marks the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of Jacques Villeretvery popular French actor, with 25 millionaire films in France during his career.
Cabbage soupis one of its top 5, behind the 9 million admissions of Cons dinnerthe 4 of Grandpa makes resistance and the 3 million of Morfalous and Both.
France 3 pays tribute to him, by proposing after this replay an unprecedented documentary by Christophe Duchiron entitled Jacques Villeret, funny tragic. With the help of rare archives and confidences-from his sister Ghislaine, artists with whom he collaborated, like Jacques Weber, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Michel Ribes or Claude Lelouch-, he offers a touching portrait of a man Fragile, but which has been able to transmit its sweetness and authenticity to the public.
Before Dinner of Cons, Jacques Villeret played the president’s dinner
Laded by the press when it was released in 1981, this adapted film of the eponymous novel by René Fallet featuring two old country country (de Funès and Jean Carmet) who, after a nighttime fart competition, see an alien landed (Jacques Villeret) in their hamlet, however, has become cult for all generations. Here are some manufacturing anecdotes, before (re) see this evening.
Louis de Funès co-directed Cabbage soup
Officially, Louis de Funès co-produced only one film, with his faithful partner Jean Girault, The stingy (1980). The actor nevertheless gave it a year later on Cabbage soupensuring the staging and the management of actors while his acolyte took care of the technique. But without leaving this time.
“”Louis is not a technician on the set. He is the director of actors“, explained Jean Carmet in Firstin 1981. “He was walking everywhere with the Fallet book under his arm: it was his bible! If there was any problem, he consulted it. As for his way to work, I will not betray anything by saying that I surprised-reading over his shoulder! – Some of the annotations he had written on the sidelines of his scenario: they refer to these people he knew or even to his family members. (…) These are things that help him and it is thanks to all this accumulation of observations that, often, his characters find their existence.“”
The PETS competition almost did not appear in the film
Louis de Funès was very involved in the project. It was he who had the idea of bringing to the screen, on the advice of his son, René Fallet’s novel, a popular author who has been adapted to the cinema for results not always very happy (The scooter,, The old old people,, Paris in August…). Tackle Cabbage soup was rather a snack, and his friend the director Yves Robert had also strongly advised him not to keep the fart competition between “The Glaude” And “Le Bomboé”. De Funès of course did not listen to it. This scene, if she crystallized the criticism of the vulgarity of the film, certainly gave her her cult status, making a tobacco with the children during the many TV reruns that made the popularity of the film grow.
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Critics could not see Cabbage soup
The film producer, Christian Fechner, sets up a big promotion campaign for the film and, aware that he may be badly welcomed by criticism, decides not to organize a projection for the press. Worse, he manages so that journalists cannot go see the film during his first week of operation.
“”Cinema criticisms for whom entering rooms is free, thanks to their professional card, are seen, for Cabbage souprefuse this right during the first week of exclusivity“, Relates the world at the time.”Whether they have said good or evil, they never had an influence on the commercial success of Jean Girault’s films with Louis de Funès (the series of the series GendarmeFor example). Would we fear, this time, that they would not divert the public from this cinematographic brouet by putting their feet in the soupter?“”
Despite these precautions, Soup to choices will not have great success in theaters, with “only” 3 million spectators, a disappointing score for Louis de Funès, the King of the Box-Office capable of eating 17 million tickets with The Grande Vadrouilleor 11 million with The Corniaud. And the press will not be deprived of stirring the film, especially because of its rudeness, once it has seen it.
Cons dinner: “Bullshit is something great!”