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Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis
(Welcome to the Land of the Ch’tis)
A film by Dany Boon
Released on 1st April 2008 at Ciné Lumière
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But to have an idea before the official UK release on 1st April, discover the story and our interview with director and actor Dany Boon:
Philippe Abrams (Kad) is the manager of the post office in Salon-de-Provence. He is married to Julie, whose depressive nature makes his life impossible. To please her, Philippe tries to cheat the system in order to obtain a transfer to the Côte-d'Azur. Unfortunately for him, his plan is uncovered and instead of the Côte-d'Azur he is transferred to Bergues, a small town in the Northern France. For the Abrams, very prejudiced southerners, the North is synonymous with nightmare, a freezi

The Interview with Dany Boon:
Last spring, director and actor Dany Boon met France In London for a special interview, rediscover below some of its best parts:
At that time, Dany Boon promoted the release of the movie ‘My Best friends’, in which he sometimes appeared very moving. It was the occasion to ask him about himself:
FIL
You were very moving in it (the movie ‘My Best Friends’) at times. You even cry and we believe in it. It’s a beautiful story. Is it Dany Boon?
DB
Do you mean on stage I’m Dany Boon ‘one man show’?
FIL
No, I mean in real life?
DB
Yes it is a little. My relations with people are similar to that. It’s my mother who taught me to be open vis à vis others.
When I wasn’t famous yet and that I wrote, I was like a sponge. I still write a lot about people. When you write to make people laugh you have to be keep on impregnating yourself of the people around you. When I began to be better known, I thought ‘blast’, I’m going to lose that. I will no longer be able to sit in a corner and listen to others talk.
In fact, now that I am in the public eye, people come to me. Some people feel a little threatened by fame and try to avoid you. Other people feel they know you like an old friend and come and tell you their life story, or they take you in their arms and cry.
FIL
They cry with you?
DB
Yes they do.
It’s something that really bothers me when people cry. It’s very strange.
To keep things in perspective, I always try to say to myself that I might be famous now but tomorrow I might not be. So I try to find out about them. I am interested in their life and I ask questions.
FIL
What does it create vis à vis others?
DB
It creates an exchange. It shows it’s possible to be interested in others even when we’re famous. As a result, it creates some very spontaneous friendships. Friendships that won’t last of course because it’s just impossible. It creates a trust. Because I have been doing this job for 15 years, it means that some people have known me ever since they were children. Some come and tell me, my father used to love you he used to watch your DVD when he was very sick. I even had to sign an autograph once for someone who had died. A woman told me: ‘My husband used to love you and I would have asked you to sign an autograph had he still been alive’. So I did it. She was very touched.
When you make people laugh you have this relation with your public unless you only do it to be famous or simply make money.
I do it because I love the stage and to be in contact with the public. It’s an exchange, a sort of repair.
FIL
But when you are in movies there are no exchanges with the public as such?
DB
Yes, but in theatre you have this relation with your audience when you are in front of 1,000 or 2000 or 400 or 30 people…and there is something that passes its like being in front of an emotional temple…and then it stops. You are then in your dressing room, all alone, then in your hotel room alone again. There is no progression.
So what I like about filming is that it’s teamwork. I love this atmosphere. The team is going to fight to ensure that everything is going to be as perfect as possible. Every frame is like a picture and every picture has to be so beautiful.
Dany Boon also told France in London his own way to deal with being an artist and with his success and showed us that, despite all this, he’s still a sensible person:
FIL
Isn’t that often the case with actors and singers to be unsure about themselves and their success?
DB
Some artists will make one album, one show, one film and then they stop. That’s because they are no longer dreaming. I think that that’s because they have spent 10 or 15 years dreaming about this moment and working on it to build themselves. At the end of these 15-year slog, suddenly it works. People discover you as if you have just done it. The next minute, they expect you to produce something else but this time, you only have two years to do it. You’re going to have to do in two years something you have done in 15 years without producing something similar. It will have to be different but not too different. The second show, the second book or the second film is the hardest thing to produce. It’s a step, an obstacle, a war a battle. Not only do you have 2 years but in addition, people are not looking at you in the same way. Initially, people were asking you what you did and people were discovering you. Now people know you and they ask you ‘so what’s the next one going to be like?’
FIL
Actually, that was my next question.
DB
It’s like people who win the lottery. They stop dreaming. They have won. So what else? They have achieved their life’s dream. If the dream was to win the money to be able to do something with it then so be it. But if the dream was to simply win.
It’s the same with artists. If the dream was simply to be famous then once they are then they have nothing else.
I don’t care about being famous. Of course I’m happy about it but I am sometimes worried about my children because that’s complicated to have parents who are famous.
But what I care about is what I write, what I play, what I share with others, with the audience, my colleagues…I want to enjoy those moments.
Making people laugh is a ‘repair’.
FIL

A ‘repair’. What do you mean by that?
DB
FIL
You mean they see themselves in the character that you are playing.
DB
Then there are most subtle jokes that will generate more serious laughs. What’s interesting is to create the show in such a way that you get the audience to move through various types of laughs.
FIL
You effectively build the show in the same way that you would write a piece of music?
DB
Yes, that’s it. I didn’t do this from the start, it came with experience.
FIL
So what you do is give them time to catch their breath before moving on to a more demanding laugh?
DB
You joke, but last year at the Olympia in Paris, someone had a heart attack. Fortunately he didn’t die.
FIL
You’re not serious.
DB
I still managed to crack a joke by saying the audience: ‘ A seat has just been freed up’.
You know, Raymond Devos had someone die at one of his shows. It was in the first few rows. Everyone left and someone stayed seated. He had died of laughter. It’s beautiful, no?
The movie ‘Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis’ talks about people living in the North of France, from where Dany Boon actually come. He told us a bit about how people from this region are and about the movie he directed:
DB
Being from the North of France, it is a tradition to be like the character I play.
FIL
Do you mean open, welcoming?
DB
Yes, it’s a tradition. Most Northern people are like that and the character I play is like that to and my mother taught me to be like that. In the North we talk easily to everyone.
FIL
It’s also very much like that in the North of England.
DB
When I arrived in Paris in 1989, I tried to speak to people in cafés by taking part in their conversation and they thought I was mad. I was therefore pleased to be able to have a part that was a little like me.
[…]
FIL
Do you have some new projects in the pipeline?
DB
I have written something called: ‘Bienvenue chez les Cht’is’
It’s the story of a civil servant who lives in the South of France in Aix-en-Provence near Marseilles and his wife dreams about moving to Cassis. So he asks for his transfer however, he makes a stupid mistake and to punish him they send him to the North Pas-de-Calais.
FIL
And he arrives there…
DB
His wife doesn’t come immediately. He tells her to stay where it’s nice and warm and he arrives there with many preconceived ideas about the North and about the Northerners.
Slowly, he will discover what they are like.
So this will give me for the first time the opportunity to film the region I come from. I’m really pleased about it. It starts in May.
FIL
When do you think it will be out?
DB
February or March.
Actually this movie is to be released on 1st April at Ciné Lumière, so don’t miss the occasion to discover this comedy here in London.
For more information about the Film and to discover the screenings in London, click here.
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