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Laurence de Charette: "Talking about faith in the cinema with Gad Elmaleh"

2022-11-17T19:05:13.107Z


CHRONICLE - An incongruous idea these days? Facing Gad, a series of characters completely disoriented by his journey shows how the subject is both taboo and incandescent.


Above all, do not touch!”

David Elmaleh puts on latex gloves and rushes to his wife's aid: Régine has just discovered a small statue of Marie in her son's suitcase.

Quickly, bury the Virgin again in her cover.

Secure the premises.

The parents inspect the luggage with customs precautions, as if each object were likely to hide a bomb.

Even the usual shirts of Gad, this beloved son, look suspicious to them.

It takes humor to approach serious things.

In his latest film, Gad Elmaleh decided to talk about religion - or even worse: faith!

He therefore had to mobilize treasures of spirit.

In

Reste un peu

, he recounts the inner adventure of a Sephardic Jew in his fifties, he, Gad, on his way to baptism, out of love for the Virgin Mary, whom he met as a child when that he was sneaking into a church;

and the identity and family tensions that his approach arouses.

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Source: lefigaro

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