A “separation”. This is the solution found by Romane Bohringer and Philippe Rebbot when they separated, to continue living under the same roof, thus preserving the family balance. In a great interview at Telerama, published on the occasion of the broadcast of their series Fuzzy love (Canal), self-fictional and self-produced story about their singular separation.
Director Romane Bohringer has found a respectful way of approaching Philippe’s alcoholism, a disease he has managed to cure. “Let’s say we wondered how to talk about certain delicate things. In particular, we wondered a lot about the trajectory of the character of Philippe, who, in real life, does not really have one … Should he, for example, talk about his relationship with alcohol? At first, I didn’t want to at all. And then that is imposed on us, in a logic of sincerity, and to tell what man, what father he really is“, developed the filmmaker with our colleagues.
In the series, Philippe Rebbot talks about his alcoholism during a session with an addictologist. “Since it was not a question of weighing down on it either, it appears at the bend of a sequence with an addictologist, and Philippe says very beautiful things there. Serious subjects, we have tried to deal with them without ever sinking into seriousness“, she maintained.
Their original separation had already inspired them to an eponymous film, Fuzzy love, released in 2018. As a reminder, Romane Bohringer and Philippe Rebbot met in 2004 on the set of the TV movie The Belleville Triporteur. Together, they welcomed two children: Rose and Raoul and therefore still live under the same roof, in Montreuil.
Find the interview with Romane Bohringer in full in the latest issue of Telerama.