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in Interviews / 16.01.2025

Interview with actor and Director Franck Dubosc: “I wanted a film that takes place in the provinces, in the country, among its inhabitants…”

On the occasion of launching the noir comedy How To Make A Killing we publish an interview with actor and director Franck Dubosc.

Franck Dubosc was born on November 7, 1963 in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime, France.

He is an actor and writer, known for Rolling to You (2018), Camping (2006) and Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). He has been married to Danièle since June 19, 2009. They have one child.

This week he can be seen in cinemas in Romania in the comedy How To Make A Killing, distributed by Prorom and Ro Image.

How To Make A Killing brings you to unexpected terrain, film noir. But it does deal with some of themes of your previous films…  
It’s almost necessarily so: I cannot, and I do not want to change my DNA. And so, all my films do have a common denominator. Often a personal relationship. In Rolling To You there was a couple, in Rumba Therapy, a father and daughter. And there is a couple in How To Make A Killing. It’s never calculated, it’s never done on purpose. It’s simply indispensable for me. If I made a film without that, I would feel that something was missing. I would feel like I’m cheating. And I don’t want that.

What did the film noir universe contribute?
Something that was more in the background in my previous films: the characters’ roots in reality. How To Make A Killing clearly shows that. Via the context and the details: I wanted us to know that Michel and Cathy shop for groceries at a Super U. From the very start, I made it clear to the crew that we were not making an “American” film. Even though I love that kind of cinema, this is a French film with very French characters, who wear French anoraks, take their kids to school… Even the gendarmes look like real gendarmes.

So important, that even its title roots your film in a specific region, outside the major cities?
That was my first desire. Even before coming up with the story, I wanted a film that takes place in the provinces, in the country, among its inhabitants…

Is that also what oriented you toward a crime film, which very often do take place in the provinces?
Exactly. And that is what may astonish my audience who will feel that this is a very distant world from the one inhabited by my usual characters.  But that procedure is much the same as when I began to write comedy sketches, whose characters were in fact very different from me. How To Make A Killing comes closer to my own tastes as a member of the audience. Even though I do love comedies, I am more naturally drawn to crime films.  

This incursion into film noir invited you onto the terrain of morality and ethics, whereas your previous films revolved mostly around the idea of lies…
Clearly. The title was even “Money can’t make you happy, my ass!” I wanted the film to be as amoral as possible. I wanted to avoid the classic terrain expected from characters in a comedy. Everyone is pretty-looking, nice to know? No! In the real world, not everyone is necessarily pretty to look at or nice to know.

And for the other roles you called on actors you are not usually associated with... Did that also have to do with your desire to enlarge your usual universe?
I went so far as to change casting directors on this film for one more specialized in “auteur” films.  Ultimately, there is only one actor in How To Make A Killing who comes from my universe. Christophe Canard, who plays the priest. All the others, from the forest ranger to the barmaid, come from another universe. Even for minor scenes: like the woman with her babies at the gendarmerie reception desk. My casting choices were in line with my desire to give the film another, more realistic feel.

Laure Calamy and Kim Higelin remain the most unexpected...
I knew that Laure could play both funny and tragic. But it’s what she did in Full Time that convinced me: bursting with energy but at the same time fragile. That was the Laure I wanted, not the more comical one in My Donkey, My Lover, And I. I couldn’t find the right actress for Kim’s part. I auditioned a lot of actresses. Very good actresses. But they all lacked that something original needed for the role. I was about to resort to street casting when someone suggested Kim. Her originality, her contemporaneity won me over. And then there is Joséphine de Meaux. Her aura of melancholy has always moved me. Aside from the empathy audiences feel for her.

On the other hand, Benoît Poelvoorde seems more in line with your comic universe. But you pushed him toward a more subdued register than he is used to.
Generally speaking, I immediately told all the actors: “Be careful, we’re going to make people laugh, but this is not a comedy. You need to act serious all the time. It will only be funny when it has to be.”  That is how I directed them, and they all respected my indications. I think that Benoît was delighted to abandon himself to his character. It would be a lie to say that we’ve never seen him like this before, but I think that here he was able to combine all of his various acting styles. Moreover, he had some voice problems during the shoot. At first, I was afraid that we might have to post-synchronize him. But no, that hoarseness brought a little something extra to the role.

How to Make a Killing / Un ours dans le Jura is now playing in cinemas.

Foto: (c) Julien Panié (c) 2024 Gaumont, Pour toi Public productions, France 2 Cinéma.




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in Hollywood / 09.01.2025

Franck Dubosc returns to cinemas with a dark comedy: How To Make A Killing

How To Make A Killing / Un ours dans le Jura can be seen in cinemas in Romania from January 10th.

Michael and Cathy accidentally witness a triple murder in the woods on Christmas Eve. A bag with two million euros and a pistol falls into their hands. In order to throw off suspicion, they are ready to accept the craziest ideas, without even knowing what absurdity they will result in.

How To Make A Killing stars Laure Calamy, Joséphine de Meaux, Emmanuelle Devos, Franck Dubosc, Benoît Poelvoorde. The movie is directed by Franck Dubosc.

“In this film, the characters’ roots in reality. How To Make A Killing clearly shows that. Via the context and the details: I wanted us to know that Michel and Cathy shop for groceries at a Super U. From the very start, I made it clear to the crew that we were not making an “American” film. Even though I love that kind of cinema, this is a French film with very French characters, who wear French anoraks, take their kids to school… Even the gendarmes look like real gendarmes.” sais the director Franck Dubosc.

How To Make A Killing is now in cinemas, distributed by Prorom and Ro Image.

Foto: (c) Julien Panié (c) 2024 Gaumont, Pour toi Public productions, France 2 Cinéma.




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in Events / 10.12.2024

Hit Man’s Glen Powell nominated for Best Actor at Golden Globes 2024

Glen Powell was nominated at Golden Globes 2024 for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for his starring performance in Hit Man directed by Richard Linklater.

In Hit Man, Glen Powell stars as a strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department.

Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona).

As Madison falls for one of Gary's hit man personas -- the mysteriously sexy Ron -- their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes.

Hit Man is now available on Netflix.




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in Events / 09.12.2024

Heretic’s Hugh Grant nominated for Best Actor at Golden Globes 2024

Hugh Grant was nominated at Golden Globes 2024 for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for his starring performance in Heretic, and he posted his gratitude on X (formerly Twitter).

"Massive thanks to the Golden Globes for so warmly welcoming a blatant gate crasher. Also to Scott Beck and Bryan Woods for spotting my need to kill, and to A24 for sponsoring it." Grant wrote.

Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who wrote A Quiet Place and directed last year's 65), Heretic stars Grant as Mr. Reed, a man who is visited by two Mormon missionaries played by Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher. Although he seems nice and genial at first, he eventually reveals himself to be a sadistic atheist willing to go to great lengths to convince the women that God isn't real.

Heretic marks Grant's seventh nomination at the Golden Globes. He won his first for 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, and he was most recently nominated for a lead role in the 2020 HBO series The Undoing.

Heretic is now playing in cinemas.




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in Events / 06.12.2024

Danny De Vito is back in cinemas with the comedy A Sudden Case of Christmas

A Sudden Case of Christmas, starring Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell, turns the traditional family Christmas movie upside down for a fun and quirky ride.

An American couple bring their 10-year-old daughter to her grandfather's hotel in Italy to tell her that they are separating. Hoping to bring them back together, she asks to celebrate one last Christmas together, even though it's August.

DeVito is joined by his real-life daughter, Lucy DeVito, who plays his onscreen daughter Abbie.

A Sudden Case of Christmas also stars Andie MacDowell, Antonella Rose, Adrian Dunbar, Francesco Salvi, Roderick Hill, Valeria Cavalli and Tommaso Sacco.

Th film is directed by Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us, Shall W Dance, Serendipity).

A Sudden Case of Christmas opens in cinemas on December 6.




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in Events / 08.08.2024

Borderlands is now in cinemas!

Borderlands - one of the most anticipated films of the summer is in cinemas today!

Based on one of the best-selling videogame franchises of all time, this action-adventure-comedy follows Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous treasure hunter with a mysterious past, who reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Edgar Ramírez), the universe’s most powerful S.O.B.

She forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits ― Roland (Kevin Hart), once a highly respected soldier, but now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Dr. Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a persistently wiseass robot.

These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands ― but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.

Long before producing the film, Ari Arad, whose credits include the recent hit Uncharted, had enjoyed playing the game upon which it’s based, calling it “cool and weird, and one of the more exciting and emotional games I’ve experienced. The game is action-packed but there’s a sweetness to it, which I thought was unique.”

Another key figure in Tiny Tina’s life is her stalwart, hulking, and loyal bodyguard Krieg. “It’s a bizarre relationship,” says Roth, “because both Tiny Tina and Krieg have been discarded. They are two misfits who take care of one another; there’s love and acceptance between them, in a big brother-little sister type way. Tiny Tina can take care of Krieg when he needs it, and he can and will kill anyone to protect her. The film is very much about the family you choose; within that family you learn to sacrifice and that’s when you are at your strongest.”

“The difference between Krieg and all the other Psychos is the soft spot in his heart he has for Tiny Tina,” says Florian Munteanu, who is best known for portraying fearsome boxer Viktor Drago in Creed II and Creed III.

According to Roth, it’s a perfect fit between actor and role.Florian grounds Krieg in a way I didn’t know was possible. He brings real humanity and multiple layers to a character that on the surface seems totally insane and savage.”

Principal photography took place in Budapest, where the BORDERLANDS art direction teams, led by production designer Andrew Menzies, constructed Pandora from Hungary’s unique geological features and from inside Budapest’s formidable sound stages.

There, they brought to life Pandora’s mix of the wild American West, humor, and an epic fantasy space adventure.

Budapest provided impressive otherworldly locations, heightened by director of photography Rogier Stoffers’s striking cinematography, including rock quarries, mines, and underground tunnels.

Production also took over the whole of Stern Studios. “I love that we got to invent everything,” comments Roth. “It’s a lawless world, where everyone is figuring out how to just survive.”

Award-winning filmmaker Eli Roth made his directorial debut in 2002 with the hugely successful film Cabin Fever, and his follow-up titles – Hostel, Hostel Part II, Knock Knock, and Death Wish – have earned him critical praise and a reputation as a true innovator in the horror space.

Prorom distributes Borderlands in Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria.




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