From one day to the next, Paul starts watching his wife’s behavior closely. Is she too pretty? Does she enjoy pleasing too much? Increasingly jealous, he catches her with one of her clients, Martineau, on a bench. He explodes in a thunderous rage at his wife. Over the months, he loses his grip and sinks into madness…
MARC LAVOINE DEBUTS WITH CHABROL
“Do you play tennis?” “Yes.” “Perfect, the role is for you.” In 1994, the singer made his first steps in cinema in front of the camera of Claude Chabrol. The director later recounted that it was also “for his very natural presence, his insolent charm, his simplicity, and for his non-cinema-affected side” that he chose him to play the role of the seducer Martineau, neighbor to the couple played by Emmanuelle Béart and François Cluzet. He was the trigger of this marital drama that X-rays the descent into hell of a compulsive jealous person.
Very impressed, Marc Lavoine recalls asking the filmmaker what he expected from him. “That you be on time on set and know your lines!” More than a formula, a precious mark of trust that he will never forget. “I apply this method every day,” Marc Lavoine likes to repeat, for whom there was clearly a before and after Chabrol. The Hell greatly helped open the doors of the 7th art to him.
The Hell, Friday, April 3 at 9:05 PM on France 5
