“”Le temps d’aimer” is a film that questions the couple, love”

Every day, a personality invites itself into the world of Élodie Suigo. Tuesday November 28, 2023: the actor, Vincent Lacoste. Tomorrow, he will be appearing in the film “Le temps d’aimer” by Katell Quillévéré.

Vincent Lacoste is part of this new generation of curious actors, never satisfied, loving to touch everything. It’s with the movie The handsome kids by Riad Sattouf (2009) that the public discovered him when he was only 15 years old. Subsequently, he turned Skylab by Julie Delpy (2005) or even Asterix and Obelix in the service of His Majesty by Laurent Tirard in 2012. In his 14-year career, he has been nominated five times for the Césars, and won once in 2022 in the Best Supporting Actor category for his interpretation of Étienne Lousteau in the drama Lost illusions by Xavier Giannoli based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac.

Wednesday November 29, 2023, he is showing in the film Time to love by Katell Quillévéré or the meeting of two beings attracted to each other. Her name is Madeleine, she is a single mother and waitress. François, whom Vincent Lacoste plays, is young, student, rich and cultured. If their attraction and their love are obvious, their secrets are of colossal weight, almost unspeakable.

franceinfo: In Time to love, we are in 1947, in the aftermath of the Second World War. A very heavy period in history and therefore in secrecy which ultimately played a big role in the lives of those who went through it. That’s what this film is all about.

Vincent Lacoste: Exactly. It’s a film about couples, a great love story. It’s a kind of epic like that, romantic about two people who meet. Time to love is a film that questions the couple, love. Often we describe the couple, either as a passion, or as somewhat cliché things, here, they are really two people who will learn to love each other, to accept their secrets since they each have one. We will discover as the film progresses how they will rise.

In the middle of this love story, there is a child who is little Daniel. It’s not easy for him in the end, because his mother sometimes has a very sharp look, even if ultimately every time he disappears from her eyes, she worries. He actually has the impression of being completely abandoned. He didn’t know his father. She told him that he had died very young. And we understand at that moment to what extent parents have an impact on our life journeys. Does this mean that our family is part of the man or woman we become?

Education and everything that happens in our childhood conditions the person we become. The film questions this and above all questions the love of a mother for her son. I feel like it’s quite taboo. The movie is called Time to love, it’s a bit for Madeleine, Anaïs Demoustier’s character, to succeed in loving her son in fact, because at the beginning, she has a complicated story and she has difficulty loving him. It’s a question that many mothers sometimes have, and it’s something that’s a bit taboo, whereas for men, it’s much more accepted.

When we look at your career, we realize that you were an actor before being a film buff.

Because I was 14! It’s rare for big 14-year-old movie buffs! I was in class.

What support did your parents give you in this choice which was immediate?

“My parents always let me do what I wanted, they trusted me. That helped me a lot.”

Vincent Lacoste

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They have always supported me in the sense that in fact, they never forced me. I started acting in films by chance. I was given a paper when I was in the canteen for a casting. I went there. It was my first film, The handsome kids and it happened even though I had never taken an acting class. At that point, my life changed quite a bit. Where they helped me a lot was that they were neither hysterical nor against it. They trusted me and told me: “Keep going to school anyway and if you like it, do that, but get to the baccalaureate and then we’ll see“.

When did you realize that this job was made for you?

From my first film. When I arrived on set… First of all, I have to say that it was better than going to school to be completely honest, it was more rewarding. And I loved it straight away, the feeling it gives, the freedom. I am a fan of cinema and therefore I do a job that is joyful and makes you want to get up in the morning.

There is one person who will trust you, get you started, and that’s Riad Sattouf. What did he bring you?

Already, he was the first director who trusted me and who gave me my first role in the cinema and for that, I will always thank him.

“‘Les Beaux gosses’ was Riad Sattouf’s first film as a director, my first film as an actor. We learned a little about cinema together.”

Vincent Lacoste

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Since your debut, we have seen you age in the image. You’re a bit part of the family!

Especially now, I’ve taken a beating!

Do you like that exactly?

Sometimes, of course, I turn on the television, I come across films that I have made and in fact, I realize that I have aged a little. When I see The handsome kids…Last time, the movie Lolo by Julie Delpy (2015) came back on TV and I said to myself: oh yeah, that was a long time ago, I had a different face!

What do you think of these 14 years of career? It’s both very short and at the same time, it’s already a great career.

Honestly, I’m very happy and proud of what I’ve done so far. I hope to do even more different things and continue my momentum. In any case, I have worked with people that I admire enormously and that is, perhaps, what I am most proud of, the people that I have been able to meet and who have contributed to me.

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