Eighteen months.
This is the record time it took Inès Reg to go from the status of anonymous humorist to that of a movie star.
Popularized in August 2019 by a viral video on Instagram (the famous "put glitter in my life, Kevin"), the young artist of 28 years, who should have started at the beginning of the year a tour of the Zenith with her one- woman-show, released this Friday on Amazon Prime Video "I want you, me neither".
A romantic comedy which she shares the poster, the script and the original idea with Kevin Debonne, her husband, a comedian who usually signs his first parts and frequently participates in his videos on Instagram where Inès Reg is at the head of an impressive community of 2.3 million subscribers.
Here's what to remember.
Inspired by the couple's story.
Shot last summer in the Basque Country, the film is inspired by the private life of the couple, long friends before becoming companions.
Nina (Inès Reg) is a young Parisian lawyer.
Betrayed by her fiancé, she leaves to cheer up with her friends, played by Laurie Peret and Pauline Clément, in Biarritz where her best friend Dylan, played by Kevin Debonne, juggles between one night's love affairs and a bartender job.
A sufficiently lucrative job to offer him a magnificent Basque villa where he can lodge this small summer camp.
Obviously, what must happen is going to happen: while she puts him rake on rake from the third grade, Nina is going to fall in love with Kevin - uh… Dylan - right at the moment when this one starts a rather serious story.
No luck.
For the originality of the story, we will review: the popcorns are still lukewarm that we know not only the end, but also the twists that will punctuate the film.
Sparkling Inès Reg.
The number 1 asset of the film really does not lie in its script.
The secondary characters are very caricature (the "hottie" girlfriend on one side, the "stuck" fan of books and hiking on the other), the sequences a bit telephoned (in all senses of the word, like this intercepted SMS which triggers Nina's XXL ire)… In short, the pictures slip by as quickly as the beers in the Basque ferias.
The interest of the film lies mainly in the personality of Inès Reg.
We find her on the screen as we had discovered in her videos or her show.
Tornado of freshness, it infuses a "feel good", solar side, which compensates for many of the film's flaws.
Sparkling, the comedian shows that from the top of her 150 cm, she has everything of a great comedy, halfway between Louis de Funès for the grimaces and Jamel Debbouze for the chat.
As a result, the film is generally viewed with pleasure, interspersed with some frankly funny scenes (the restaurant, the dive, the supermarket checkout…).
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Winks to his videos.
End credits, the film is dedicated to “the fololos”.
Translation: to the millions of followers (followers) of Inès Reg on social networks.
It is obviously they who made the film possible and allowed the couple to attempt the cinematographic adventure so quickly.
Fans rest assured, they will find in the film all the spontaneity and positive messages that the comedian delivers throughout the videos.
They can even have fun tracking down a few winks.
The most obvious: the deluge of ... glitter that Kevin-Dylan reserves for Nina-Inès when she leaves the TGV in Biarritz.
Another example, this line of Nina when she learns that Dylan is dating a certain Cassandra.
"Dylan and Cassandra?
Can you imagine, they have a kid, they have to call him Kevin!
"
Born during confinement.
“Making of” department, the film is a confinement baby.
Started in January 2020, the writing was completed in the spring when the couple were confined to Kevin's family, on the Biarritz side.
Everything then happened very quickly for a filming on site in August.
If the feature film is, on the posters, presented as "the film of Inès Reg and Kevin Debonne", it is directed by Rodolphe Lauga, the director in particular of "Situation amoureuse: c'est complicated" with Manu Payet (2014).
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The queen of surfing.
This is one of the first scenes of the film ... luckily shot at the end.
We see Nina learning to surf with her best friend.
In real life, the footage was reproduced a number of times on camera.
Result, crack!
the knee leaves… “It was the penultimate day, told us Inès Reg last September.
I am living one of the most beautiful moments of my life: I am shooting a surf scene, there is the
real
who is in the water in a wetsuit, we are laughing, it is going very well.
There are lots of falls, because hey, I grew up in Paris, so surfing (
laughs
)… I barely take four steps on the beach and my knee slams.
Sprain !
So, on the last day, I had to be transported to the top of a mountain to celebrate the end of filming with the crew.
"
EDITOR'S RATING: 2.5 / 5
“I don't want you either”
, romantic comedy by and with Inès Reg and Kevin Debonne, directed by Rodolphe Lauga, also starring Pauline Clément, Laurie Peret… 1h40.
Available from Friday on Amazon Prime Video.