On September 7, Gilles Lellouche returns to the cinema. Indeed, the film by Jérôme Salle, Kompromat, will be broadcast in dark rooms and will reveal a chilling story, inspired by a true story. On this subject, the actor and acolyte of Jean Dujardin, wished to clarify the situation this Thursday, September 1 on the set of It’s up to you when he answered questions from Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine.
Indeed, the journalist wanted to know more about the history of the film, and in particular the story of the character, wrongly imprisoned. To answer his questions, the one who was displayed in undress by Guillaume Canet on the occasion of his 50th birthday, revealed the synopsis of the feature film. “He’s a guy who works for the French alliance which takes care of organizing all the cultural life of a city”he presents at first.
Wrongly jailed
Gilles Lellouche then continues by presenting the points that led the character to prison: “And then one evening he has the misfortune to invite a gay choreographer who is doing a homosexual show which absolutely does not please the oligarchs who finance the show. And so everyone leaves the room more or less. Then he goes dancing a little too close with the girl who is the daughter of a newly FSB ex-KGB agent. And there, he decides to eliminate her and put him out of harm’s way because he carries too many Western values because that’s all that they don’t like”.
Worse still, in order to send him to prison and make him disappear, his file will be totally Photoshopped as the actor specifies. Despite the shoddy work, it won’t change anything and his fate will be sealed no matter what: “It’s extremely visible that everything is wrong. They don’t care, they put him in prison”. To conclude his intervention in It’s up to youGilles Lellouche nevertheless wished to clarify an important point: “So the true story that we were inspired by, very very freely, he spent three years in prison, these are absolutely atrocious methods”.
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