Benjamin Castaldi unzips the movie on Signoret and Montand | EUROtoday

In the viewfinder of the French animator: the way in which by which the romantic relationship between Simone Signoret and Yves Montand is advised. Supposed to pay tribute to his grandparents, stars of French cinema, I who cherished you would truly be a “reconstruction […] Allowing all the emotional shortcuts of a feminism that has become dogmatic, ”according to Benjamin Castaldi. And to denounce an “simple”, “comfy” and above all “false” story.

“Their story deserves higher”

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For the TV presenter, Yves Montand (embodied by Roschdy Zem) is portrayed by Diane Kurys as a “bland and fleeting man” in addition to a “toxic male”. The actor and singer, who died in 1991, would, quite the opposite, would have been somebody “complex, committed, proud”, based on his grandson. Benjamin Castaldi additionally regrets that Simone Signoret (interpreted by Marina Foïs), who died in 1985, be proven on the display as a lady “extinct, melancholy, recluse”, she who was endowed with a “devastating humor”, a “political intelligence” and was an actress “out of pear” and a “free intellectual”.

“Their history deserves better than this opportunistic rereading, ideologically biased, and dramatically bland,” says Benjamin Castaldi. Convicing an “era obsessed with repentance”, he claims to have “been betrayed” and “speak as a witness” and never as a “jealous heir”.