A triumph: a film as endearing as it is moving [critique]

Kad Merad at his best and in tune with a group of amazing actors. Great popular cinema.

With With fanfarecurrently at the cinema, Emmanuel Courcol confirms his ease in the art of feel good movie moving but never cutesy. In the summer of 2021, he had already conquered Première thanks to Triumpha comedy already worn by Pierre Lottin, but also Kad Merad or Sofian Khammes. As she returns to France 3, we highly recommend her.

Our review ofA triumph : We discovered Emmanuel Courcol director in 2016 with Cease the fire. But before going behind the camera, he was an actor. And this is undoubtedly what pushed him to bring to the screen this story inspired by a true story lived by a Swede. That of a struggling actor who agrees to lead a theater workshop in a prison. Initially to make ends meet. But very quickly, he will have a double revelation: the talent – ​​of which they are not aware – of those he directs and his pleasure in directing for the first time. And he decides to go up Waiting for Godot outside the walls, trying to convince a reluctant prison hierarchy.

Notably co-produced by Dany Boon and Robert Guédiguian, A triumph manages to play with the thread-stitched story that it falsely suggests. And, in the central role, Kad Merad delivers a remarkable composition from start to finish, intense, precise, subtle. He does not miss his encounter with one of his most beautiful roles with Paul Tellier of I'm fine don't worry and Philippe Rickwaert of Black Baron. He marvelously embraces each contradiction of his character who, after having mourned his dreams of glory, uses this theatrical adventure as much as he serves those he directs. Kad Merad is perfectly in tune with the tone of the story and surrounded by a group of actors all more amazing than the others, starting with Sofian Khammes (The Cloud) whose rise to power is fantastic news for French cinema and Pierre Lottin, revealed by The Tuches.

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