In the family comedy Boutchou, a war between grandparents breaks out for the love of the newborn. Director Adrien Piquet-Gauthier tells us about the origin of his first feature film, at the cinema on September 23.
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New family comedy for the start of the school year, Boutchou is the first production of Adrien Piquet-Gauthier, an author used to writing for television and one man shows. This is' "an outcome" for him, a way of "put in image the ideas that we have". Lightweight, funny and carried by an involved cast, Boutchou features a quirky family welcoming the first grandchild of the family. Paul (Lannick Gautry) and Virginie (Stéfi Celma) have just had a baby boy, but their happiness as young parents is short-lived when their respective parents engage in a merciless struggle with traps and stratagems to attract the favors of the newborn and call themselves the best grandparents. The plot allowed the actors to have fun on the set "very good child".
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Inspired by his personal life as a dad, Adrien Piquet-Gauthier wrote the screenplay with his friend and producer Simon Istolainen but also the comedian Kheiron. Adrien Piquet-Gauthier and Simon Istolainen drew on their experiences, the first having become a father, the second uncle, and reflected on ideas they could draw from the similarities in their family relationships and put their ideas down on paper. From the writing, Adrien Piquet-Gauthier already had the faces of some of his characters: "I already had Gérard Darmon and Pascal Nzonzi in mind for the roles of the grandfathers and for the grandmothers, the ideas of actresses came naturally as the script was being written. And for my more great pleasure, Carole Bouquet and Clémentine Célarié accepted ".
Why Boutchou?
Throughout the film, the newborn is called Boutchou. A desire of the director who loves the fact that the title of the feature film is repeated several times. But for Adrien Piquet-Gauthier, it is above all a question of making the history of the film universal and easily accessible: "I wanted everyone to be able to relate to this child and this family. By not naming the child precisely, anyone could add any given name and find themselves easily. Basically, I didn't even want to give the gender of the child but it was much more complicated in the writing of the dialogues. So we had to decide on the sex of the child and we chose to make him a little boy.
Interview by Mégane Choquet on September 18, 2020. The trailer for the film Boutchou, at the cinema on September 23:
