2,308,644 entrée, Nathie Morin, Jean-Claude Dusse, Popeye, Gig…, “When would I see you again? Wonderful country! Where those who love each other, live two!” Do you have it? November 22, 1978 came out Bronzedfrom Patrice Leconte, a comedy that has become essential. With the Splendid troupe in the main roles, it is the adaptation of their room, Love, shellfish and crustaceans. Second film from the director, after The experiences were closed from the inside (in which Jean Rochefort gave the reply to Coluche), he is also his first big success. However, nothing suggested that a trilogy was going to see the light of day, always attracting more spectators in dark rooms and in front of their televisions to follow the adventures of this thin team. Guest of Elodie WorldMonday, July 28, 2025, Patrice Leconte returns to this crazy adventure which almost passed her nose.
Patrice Leconte remembers the difficult filming of her first film
“There is a period which was not black, but which was gray very dark, where I no longer knew what to do. Until I meet the group of the splendid and my life changed with the tanks”he explains. Especially since on the set of his previous film, he had a hard time managing his emotions. “It was hard to live every day the filming of the experiences were closed from the inside. I came back to the house, I did not sleep anymore, it was an awful shoot. I am not saying that it is good to have experienced it, but it allowed me not to have arrogance, to realize that all this is fragile and that one can make a success one day and a flop the next day”. Fortunately, when he meets Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel and Bruno Moynot, everything changes. In the columns of Mondein 1987, we learn that “It was at the café-theater that he had spotted Coluche, it was there that he also meets the splendid band”. With Élodie SUIGO he specifies: “I was going to see all their shows at Café-Théâtre. It’s very easy to become friends, they had seen my first film and they had found it very good”.
How did the splendid allow Patrice Leconte to realize Bronzed ?
“When producer Yves Rousset-Rouard, uncle of Christian Clavieroffered to adapt the part, they agreed and delighted. They said ‘we’re going to do it with Patrice because we get along well’ […]. Yves Rousset-Rouard wanted to put them in the legs of confirmed directors […] But they held up and that’s how they imposed me on the first tanned and the second “. About almost, Patrice Leconte could have missed the most emblematic film of her career.
