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The team of “Un p’tit truc en plus”, a successful film by Artus, climbed the steps of the Cannes Film Festival

Around Artus, the film crew a little thing In addition, he climbed the stairs of Cannes this Wednesday, May 22.

The Artus Film Team”something extra“, with actors with mental disabilities, a great success with more than 3 million viewers, took to the steps of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

The film crew, all smiles, was greatly applauded and paraded down the red carpet to the sound of organized banda hit by the Marseille collective 13’Organisé, led by star rapper Jul, played by the DJ from the top of the stairs.

The Un ptit truc en plus team, at the Cannes Film Festival, May 22, 2024.
The Un ptit truc en plus team, at the Cannes Film Festival, May 22, 2024. © Loïc Venance

“There are eleven disabled actors and four classic ones, four boring ones, we would say,” the comedian and actor Artus recently joked on France Inter, specifying that the latter were himself, Clovis Cornillac, Alice Belaïdi and Céline Groussard.

This comedy, which aims to laugh with disabled people and not at their expense, is already one of the hits of the year.

“A feel-good movie”

Father and son on screen, Clovis Cornillac and Artus play two little thugs who hide in the middle of a summer camp for young people with mental disabilities, to escape from the police. Artus poses as a guest and Clovis Cornillac as his educator.

Asked about the reasons for its success, Artus considered that “in this somewhat distressing time, it is a film that feels good,” and that allows us to discover “a population that we do not see often, people in situations of mental disorder.” disability.

In addition, Artus will also be a guest of the Union of Disabled Cinema Professionals (SPCH) on Friday on the beach of the National Film Center (CNC) in Cannes at 10:00 a.m., for a debate within the framework of Film Week. Positive cinema. under the presidency of Jacques Attali.

“Out of Standards” and “The Eighth Day”

Participating in the debate will be Fadila Khattabi, minister delegate for older people and people with disabilities, the actor Samuel Le Bihan, the director-producer and president of the SPCH Julien Richard-Thomson, and Margault, disability coordinator of the film Artus.

something extra It is not selected in Cannes. Actors with disabilities had already walked on the red carpet in 2019 for Out of standards by the filmmaking duo Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.

In 1996, the film the eighth day by Jaco Van Dormael won a joint acting award for Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne, an actor with Down syndrome.

Author: MRI with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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