The return of a cult comedy. Fabián Onteniente his new film premieres this Wednesday 4 zeros22 years after the success of 3 zeros. This comedy about the weaknesses and antics of PSG, with Gerard LanvinStomy Bugsy, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Nanty, Gérard Darmon and Lorant Deutsch, had marked a generation.
3 zeros followed the story of Tibor Kovacs (Deutsch), a soccer prodigy who dreams of playing for the French national team. Discovered by Manu (Le Bihan), his cellmate, who will become his agent, he arrives at PSG thanks to the veteran Alain Colonna (Lanvin). In 4 zerosonly Colonna has returned.
After retiring, Colonna returns to help his sister (Isabelle Nanty), whose son dreams of becoming an agent. When they accidentally discover a young soccer prodigy among the employees of their restaurant, they must confront an unscrupulous agent (Kaaris), with methods bordering on illegality, who tries to rob them.
With this film, in which the player Paul Pogba stands out, Fabien Onteniente wants to talk not only about the behind the scenes of football, but also “about society”, the director insists to BFMTV:
“We have to show the love of popular football, we have to show the living part, otherwise it doesn’t make sense.”
With the screenwriter of “Chasse Gardée”
the director of Camping and of jet set worked on the film with Antonin Fourlon, the director of private preservesurprise hit last winter. “He is a great scriptwriter. He saw the project with his thirty-year-old eyes. It was he who advised me to bring Colonna back. I was a little afraid,” admits the director.
“He told me that we were in a story whose codes we knew and that we should not hesitate to use certain codes that people liked, especially music,” he adds. “It was thanks to this work with him that I was able to return to this universe. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it the same way.”
when the project 4 zeros As announced several years ago, it was about addressing women’s football in detail. A theme concentrated in a handful of scenes, including one in which Isabelle Nanty’s character rediscovers love with a player. A sequence that greatly moved the rooms during the previews.
“I am very surprised because this story works very well in theaters,” confirms Fabien Onteniente. “The scene is very well performed by Nanty,” adds Gérard Lenvin. “It’s a real love scene with a character surprised that it can still (generate) interest. It leaves an impression on people.”
Difficult to climb
The film, which brings together various football figures such as Rolland Courbis, Guy Roux, Jean-Pierre Papin, Jean-Claude Darmon and Raï, was filmed in collaboration with the PSG Foundation and was partly filmed on the PSG campus in Poissy, in the Yvelines. A first in the cinema.
Despite the success of 3 zerosand its cult film status, 4 zeros It was difficult to put together. “Fabien didn’t stop for two periods,” greets Gérard Lanvin. “Before the movie, he was complicated. In the preparation, he was complicated. He was a warrior until our project (which) was still colossal.”
Although it had a budget of 10 million euros, Fabien Onteniente had to settle for less filming time than expected. “It wasn’t enough,” laments the director. “It takes a lot of effort. 3 zerosWe were thirteen weeks old. And there we had eight. And we are asked to do better with less!”
Fabien Onteniente is already preparing the sequel. no news Camping on the horizon, but a film with Gérard Lanvin as the lone hero. “Solitaires seem sexy to me. I’m working on them.” And he also dreams of filming a new blockbuster, an adaptation ofAsterix in Corsica with Philippe Lacheau and Didier Bourdon as Asterix and Obélix.
Source: BFM TV
