[CINEMA] I love peru, Hugo David’s false documentary on Raphaël Quenard

Whether you appreciate it or hate it, Raphaël Quenard does not leave indifferent. However, Omnipresent on screens for four. Therefore, five years, this young comic actor with great dramatic potential was notably illustrated by his bagout, his particular phrasing and his hallucinated gaze in Casse dog, Yannick, The Fantastic Three or The second act. Moreover, Before lending his features to Johnny Hallyday in a biopic directed by Cédric Jimenez. Therefore, Quenard – his name sounds in itself as a joke – is today on the poster for a false documentary, I Love Perustaged by his friend Hugo David. Moreover, A film “of friends”, shot with three francs six sous, a camera and a reduced team to the bare minimum.

A spiritual quest – [cinema] i love peru, hugo

The director explains us in voice off That the two met on a set, several years ago. Consequently, Hugo David was then [cinema] i love peru, hugo responsible for shooting the “making of” of a film in which Raphaël Quenard played. In addition, Their understanding was such that the young filmmaker continued to follow his friend over the years and. focusing on the future success of the actor, undertook to film him on all occasions in order to set up, one day, a real feature film.

Kindly damn. I Love Peru then depicts the professional rise of Quenard, often filmed on the sidelines of a shoot – such as that of Love phewfrom Gilles Lellouche – and imagines this false ingenuated being caught up in the traps of celebrity. Having become ungrateful. self -centered, the actor then begins to abandon his comrade and returns six months later, his mouth in the heart, to ask him at the last minute to accompany him on a trip to Peru; Because suddenly just having a “vision”, after being wasyd by [cinema] i love peru, hugo his girlfriend, Quenard wishes to embark on a spiritual quest in the land of condors …

Entertaining but inconsistent

Unlike the recent documentary Bicycle!which incorporated elements of fiction into his story at times -. questioned, in doing so, the ethics of its director Mathias Mlekuz -, Hugo David’s film starts from total fiction to integrate, here and there, elements taken from life and improvised passages. From two hundred hours of rushs (ten hours in Peru. one hundred and ninety hours in France), Hugo David was able to draw, unfortunately, only a film of sixty-nine minutes-that is to say the overall quality of the shot images … We touch the heart of the problem: if it is frankly hilarious in certain passages. I Love Peru Also very often falls flat. The vulgarity of many dialogues. the personality – colorful, certainly – by Raphaël Quenard do not take the place of scenario. [cinema] i love peru, hugo Perhaps it was a little presumptuous to believe that the only presence of the actor would be enough to build a solid. consistent work. As it stands. this false documentary is limited to a nice portfolio, to a demo band for a young actor who still seeks to prove his legitimacy.

2.5 out of 5 stars