The African family Francois Dupeyron

"Help God help you" Film Francois Dupeyron, with Felicity Wouassi, Claude Rich, Mata Gabin. Running time: 1 h 32 Quietly but surely, Francois Dupeyron took place in French cinema. Deneuve and Depardieu led to his debut on the screen with strange place for a meeting. A few years later, he will be in competition at Cannes with La Chambre des officiers, superb adaptation of the novel by Marc Dugain on broken faces of 14-18. Quickly noted but never flashy, he departed willingly on roads traverse. On the side of peasants in What is life? or illegal Inguélézi. Less taste of social problems to listen beating hearts (A heart that beats, is another of its titles). Help with God help you, he landed in an African family in the suburbs of Paris. As the film was shot before the American elections, it does not taxera of Obamania. It preceded the current vogue. "It would be a mistake to promote it, wisely said the director. Moreover Obama introduced himself as a man, not as Black. " Dupeyron had seen or Hallelujah! or Carmen Jones, it was only "to work on the real today," and "turn with black players. Because I often noticed in the streets of the elderly, white, accompanied by carers black. And because I was surprised by the noise surrounding the arrival of Harry Roselmack on the television news. " D u real, yes, realism, no. The family apartment decorated with a southern air sunny we Mureaux away from where the action. Sonia (excellent Felicity Wouassi) works in laundry and home help. It is the pillar of the family, and it has to be done between a husband retired typing and it stings his savings to play, a dealer eldest son, another break-neck, a teen girl pregnant, l secondly it will marry. With worries daily dramas secrets, of Whimsical ups, an exuberant friend (Mata Gabin), an old neighbor love (Claude Rich), a comedy composed Dupeyron human warm and sensitive. "I do not fit the usual questions about the suburbs, he said. I am committed to exist African family, leaving just spend most of life in the film. Above all, do not produce, otherwise everything becomes tedious. The living Move naturally. It is in the drama, and then things light. Sonia has a motto: "There is always a solution." One must understand that the only solution is not obvious. Tomorrow who will, it's time, that's life. " "I look where born grace" That is part of the sky, included in the proverb "both open and sealed" says the filmmaker, who serves as a title: Help God help you. And that is the way in which Francois Dupeyron film designs. "I work a lot with rigor and discipline of a craftsman. And I have been slow to give me confidence to find on the shelf ease that I write: I do not know where I go, there is a freshness, a lightness that belong to life . How to change a situation without artifice? This is often a matter of mood, to find an agreement. When a catch is good, you know, but we do not know why. We did not find the solution, she came. Any part of my approach is: I am looking where born grace. The grace or love the same thing. "