Triumph at home for Dany Boon who reserved the preview of his comedy on the coronavirus and the confinement at
8 rue de l'Humité
in his region of heart and birth, Hauts-de-France. Welcomed by a crowd, the actor launched Friday, in Vitry-en-Artois, this film on this period revealing our faults as our potential for generosity, which comes out - another sign of the times - on Netflix, on October 20 .
“Hey Biloute!”, “Dany, Dany!”: In front of the multipurpose room of this town of some 5,000 inhabitants of Pas-de-Calais, transformed by the giant of video streaming into a projection room with red carpet, large screen and chairs folding, the crowd exulted to welcome the child of the country. All generations combined, assaulted the child of the country which in 2008 exceeded 20 million admissions with
Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
, the biggest success in France for a French film.
The actor signs autographs with a shovel, lowers his fans' masks for a selfie and pulls out his finest northern accent, saying "Netflikche" for Netflix.
If Dany Boon reserved the preview for his region, will then be presented in four other French municipalities (La Penne-sur-Huveaune, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle ...), with each time an update honor of local “heroes” of containment.
Dany Boon thus paid tribute to three childhood friends from Vitry-en-Artois, Wilfried Lallier, Franck Gilloteaux and Léo Guéant, now aged 19 and 20, posing with them under the crackling flashes, festival style of Cannes.
During confinement, the trio went shopping for the elderly or isolated.
They were "formidable, exemplary, generous", greeted Dany Boon before the start of the screening.
A choral film,
8 rue de l'homme,
features the inhabitants of a Parisian building in the 11th arrondissement caught in the throes of the first confinement, which exacerbates their neuroses but also stimulates their creativity and, ultimately, their solidarity and mutual aid.
The plot navigates between a disheveled biologist obsessed with the quest for a vaccine (Yvan Attal), a hypochondriac always armed with a thermometer (Dany Boon), his wife (Laurence Arné, Dany Boon's own companion), children , sponges of their parents' anguish, but who will fall in love, a bistro boss (Liliane Rovère from
Dix per cent
) who is looking for a way to stay open, or a young couple (Tom Leeb and Alison Wheeler) no longer living 'through social networks.
Upcoming broadcast on a major TV channel
"For my generation, quite privileged, the health crisis is the first hard thing of our life that we go through",
underlines Laurence Arné, co-writer and actress, who plays a lawyer juggling between family and professional constraints.
"It is an event that will have marked our generation".
At the exit, the spectators say they are seduced by the mixture of humor and emotions.
And this even if the first images of the trailer mainly put forward jokes that seem well worn out and outdated after 18 months of pandemic and several lockdowns.
A film of an era,
8 rue de l'humanite
is also produced by the mode of distribution chosen.
Netflix is "a complementary medium to cinema" assures Dany Boon.
"
The film will be released everywhere, in more than 200 countries (...) and, for those who do not have Netflix, it will be broadcast on a major TV channel, terrestrial, in a few months
", insists the popular director .
His fans were also a reason.
The film "
does not go to the cinema?
One of them exclaimed Roberte Boché, who concluded.
"Then I'll go see him at my daughter's house!"
, subscribed, she, to Netflix,.