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Cinema: for actor Benjamin Lavernhe, Abbé Pierre is a character “who is very complex, charming, seductive, destabilizing”
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The actor plays the famous defender of the homeless in the feature film “L’Abbé Pierre-Une vie de combats” by Frédéric Tellier, in theaters from Wednesday.
The film Abbé Pierre-A life of struggle by Frédéric Tellier comes out in rooms Wednesday November 8. The feature film returns to the extraordinary destiny of the creator of Emmaüs, who died in 2007. “He had an epic, totally romantic life. It has spanned the century. Beyond the greatest solidarity adventure of the 20th century, it is also the heroic destiny of this ordinary man.”assures actor Benjamin Lavernhe, who lends his features to Abbé Pierre.
“A tribune, an orator”
“He belongs to the French, people feel like they know him. (…) He was the French people’s favorite personality for seventeen years, so there is the myth, the legend, the media character. But there is also this man behind the legend, behind the consensual character”, develops the actor. According to him, Abbé Pierre is a character “which is very complex, charming, seductive, destabilizing”.
“What’s great is that there are the values that the film defends, but also the extraordinary adventure of filmingadds the actor. He is a man who had a very, very strong relationship with words. He was a tribune, an orator.”