We don’t touch the family. Benjamin Castaldi violently attacked the film I who loved you of Diane KURYS in a forum in Paris Match This Sunday. While the feature film about the love story between Simone Signoret and Yves Montand must be released on October 1, their grandson is working: “There are films that pay homage. Others who disguise. I who loved youproduced by Diane Kurys, claims to celebrate my grandparents. He erases them. He reinvents them. He instrumentalizes them. »»
The TV host continues: “I am the grandson of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand. I may not have their talent, but I grew up in the bright shadow of this extraordinary couple. […] It is a lazy fiction, built on deformed figures and subjected to the ideological codes of our time. »»
“My grandfather was not a bastard”
He reproaches the director for “rewrite history by allowing herself all the emotional shortcuts of feminism that has become dogmatic”. Simone Signoret is portrayed, according to him, as “an eternal silent victim”. As for Yves Montand, he would pass for “a worldly, smooth and fleeing, almost manipulator” predator “.
Benjamin Castaldi says that his “grandfather was not a bastard”, nor “a toxic male”. Then he returns to the case of his grandmother: “This film shows nothing of what made her an outstanding actress, a free intellectual, a combat woman. »»
He wanted to “be moved” by this film, he said he was “betrayed” and concludes: “their story deserves better than this opportunistic rereading, ideologically biased, and dramatically bland. »Benjamin Castaldi will not hunter the red carpets of the previews of I who loved you And will not watch him during his time on TV.
