The clan Will it be the surprise success of this beginning of the year? Adapted from a successful play by Éric Fraticelli (over 100,000 viewers), this comedy has sold out all its premieres since November. The premiere of the film, this Wednesday, a week after Córcega, should confirm this trend.
“I’m not surprised by the laughter in the room. There was laughter in the same place when we were doing the play! What surprises me, instead, is the excitement around this movie. Something is going on that we don’t know about.” control, we don’t understand that”, explains Éric Fraticelli, who already attracted 600,000 viewers last year with building permit.
Written, directed and starring Fraticelli, The clan tells the story of a team of broken arms, Fred, Achille, Max and Weasel, who attempt to kidnap Sophie Marceau in order to recover after a failed heist. Problem: A complete stranger is kidnapped who turns out to be the wife of the new police chief.
Between “La Paloma” and “Snatch”
With its valves that fuse every second and its absurd history, The clan wowed the audience: “building permit it was nice, but we’ve already seen films like this”, believes Éric Fraticelli. “We found fewer films like The clan in France. Maybe that’s why there’s a sense of curiosity.”
Built on the model of welcome home of the Ch’tis, building permit recounted the mishaps of a Parisian who wanted to build a house on the island of beauty. The clan “It’s a mix of Italian comedy and English comedy in a French film with a Corsican accent,” laughs Éric Fraticelli.
“Which ultimately gives us a rather bizarre cocktail: mixing movies like Pigeon Y Horrible, dirty and evil. with Snap and you get the style of Clan!” Analyzes the director.
a universal history
The clan it is a universal story, which honors Corsican humor, the “macagna”, or “mocking and not mocking”, specifies Éric Fraticelli. “It’s true that it takes place in Corsica, but the heart of the matter is the characters, the situations that they find a bit boring, and a lot of jokes. It’s a pretty simple recipe.”
The press remains hermetic to the phenomenon for the moment. “I don’t want to make excuses, but there are no stars in the film. If there had been Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Omar Sy, Dany Boon, the 15 we always talk about, they would have made it easier.” so they can talk about it.”
Éric Fraticelli has, however, a star in the cast of Clan: Sophie Marceau in person. But the director doesn’t want to talk about it. “I don’t communicate about the fact that she’s in the movie, because it would be promoting and lying to say it’s a movie with Sophie Marceau.”
the star of Party he actually appears during a scene where he makes fun of his image. A scene written especially for the film, at the request of Sophie Marceau, to whom Éric Fraticelli had sent the script “out of courtesy”: “He told us that the film had made her die laughing and that it would have been nice if ‘she has a scene.
“The important thing is that the public likes it”
What building permit, The clan it ends with some credits where the cast dances. A way to leave the room “with a good feeling”, emphasizes Éric Fraticelli: “No one reads the credits except the professionals. It’s useless! Since you need the credits, you could also make one that is nice! It’s festive!”.
“The important thing for me is that the public like it. I’m talking to the public, not to the media,” continues the director who refuses to take himself seriously and prefers to break with the somewhat rigid restrictions of cinema to deliver a film. . casually: “I try to fight blind intellectualism,” he says.
Éric Fraticelli is already preparing his third film, which will be shot in February, and in Córcega, like the previous ones, entitled Priceless. It will give the answer to Didier Bourdon and Philippe Corti, it will be a comedy inspired by a true event, the discovery of a Roman treasure while fishing for sea urchins.
What is your magic recipe to shoot so fast in a context of overproduction? “Threats,” she said, bursting out laughing. “Sometimes things just happen that way,” he adds more seriously. “I am surrounded by quite dynamic people. My producer, Philippe Godeau, is very fast and works well.” The film will be released in 2024.
Source: BFM TV
