Alpe d’huez 2018 – Jean-Paul Rouve : “I love to laugh with people, not against them” – Gala

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Before it was released in theaters on January 31, the third component of the Tuche will be presented tonight out of competition at the festival of the Alpe d’huez. His main performer takes us on a ride to the cemetery of Montmartre. Not sad.

Jean-Paul Rouve is a tender nostalgic. A mischievous creature that comes out of his box to make others laugh on the big screen, but that would basically take all the world in his arms. “I love to laugh with people, not against them. I believe in spite of all that man is good. “I met the actor-director to the foot of the vineyards of Montmartre : the man loves the atmosphere falsely antiquated of the hillock, there lives the last ten years :” outside of the peak periods for tourists, one has the impression of living in the Paris of the fifties. It is a village. “We take a coffee at The Mascot, the Abbesses, the bistro fetish where he filmed a scene of his movie memories with Annie Cordy.

Near the counter, Michou, four-twenty-seven years, calls out to us : “Jean-Paul is going to have a long career, he was a good guy. “The person smiled, almost embarrassed. Fifty years and change, he is rather a philosopher : “When I came to Dunkirk, no nothing, I wanted to conquer Paris, leaving a trace. With time, we learn to live the moment without worrying about the rest. “In Rouve, there was no talk of money, we worked hard. His parents, Myriane and Marcel, still follow closely his career, but without pride moved. “When I was living in a garret, in my early days, they asked me just if I was eating well, not if I had roles. “He spent dozens of castings in vain :” we must believe in his destiny, even if I still don’t know where I found the strength not to let go of the case. “In the cemetery of Montmartre, where he likes to hang out, one passes in front of the graves of Sacha Guitry and Dalida. ” It is so beautiful a cemetery, they are not made for the dead but for the living who can not understand the nothingness and the infinite “, and Jean-Paul to quote Jacques Brel, while the sky covers : “I believe that God, men and one day they will know. ”

Nikos Aliagas

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