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Antoine de Bary, his day of glory

2020-02-26T05:24:35.467Z


In My Days of Glory, Vincent Lacoste is brilliant as a loser actor. Meet the director of this funny and moving first feature.


Antoine de Bary, like many first time directors, put a lot of him in his first film, the very successful My Days of Glory . We wish he didn't put everything, that he kept it under his elbow, because the same thirty-something step has talent.

Making a personal film does not mean watching your navel. My Days of Glory is a comedy, even a "drama" , this genre that does not exist for cinema operators (drama or comedy, you have to choose a young man) when it is very widespread in life (you don't can't eat shit sandwiches every day). "My film is the ass between two chairs, melancholic," admits Antoine de Bary, a big fan of Italian comedies of the 1950s and 1960s (Risi and company) and Apprentices , the cult film by Pierre Salvadori with the roommates in the deche François Cluzet and Guillaume Depardieu. My Days of Glory is also the story of a depression, that of Adrien, a child actor who became an immature young adult, already boastful.

I still can not believe it. Emmanuelle Devos said yes very quickly after having read the script

Antoine de Bary

Antoine de Bary has never been a movie star in short pants or a casting star for a film about the youth of Charles de Gaulle. Son of a pub producer, he grew up in Paris in a loving family, became a friend in high school with Félix Moati, touched everything on the sets (production, props, assistant director), made small clips ( "A very good school of galley" ), writes "fifteen beginnings of null short films" .

Handsome kid in distress

In 2016, he directed L'Enfance d'un chef , a short film with Vincent Lacoste selected for La Semaine de la critique in Cannes. He left the Croisette with the Canal + prize. He went on to write My Days of Glory , a feature film that developed the plot of the short. Lacoste resumes its role of loser and gives it a new dimension. He is brilliant in the skin of this beautiful kid in distress, lover without libido, helpless spectator of the separation from his parents. To play Adrien's shrinking mother and worthless father, Antoine de Bary dreamed of Emmanuel Devos and Christophe Lambert. Both agreed. "I still can not believe it. Emmanuelle Devos said yes very quickly after reading the script. Christophe Lambert is a myth of the 1980s, Greystoke, Highlander , smoked glasses… But he had moved me a lot when I heard him talking about his alcohol problems on television at Ruquier. When we had a coffee in a big Parisian hotel to talk about the film, I felt like I was in front of a character. ”

Antoine de Bary also met Brad Pitt in Venice, but from a distance, when My Days of Glory was presented in early September in the official selection at the Mostra (Orizzonti section). "A world first in a big festival, the arrival on the Lido in a vaporetto with the team, a room of 1,400 people, full of nice Italians, a good review in Hollywood Reporter and Screen Daily ..." The young director still stars in the eyes. But there is no doubt that his glory days are ahead of him.

● “My glory days”, a comedy by Antoine de Bary. With Vincent Lacoste, Emmanuelle Devos, Christophe Lambert… Duration: 1h39.

Source: lefigaro

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