Irreducible (Canal+): which film inspired Jérôme Commandeur?

Broadcast this Friday, November 30, 2022 at 9:10 p.m. on Canal+, Irreducible allows Jérôme Commandeur to slip behind the camera for the second time. Thus, he is the hero and the director of this film, a remake of a successful film.

Canal+ broadcasts Friday, November 30, 2022 at 9:10 p.m. the adventures of Vincent Peltier, played by Jérôme Commandeur, also director of the film Irreducible. The artist, who did not expect a little surprise in Telematin during the promotion of the feature film, you come across a multitude of characters including one played by Valérie Lemercier, one of whose films has landed on Netflix, Christian Clavier, recently mentioned by Chantal Lauby, or Gérard Depardieu, a super grand- father according to his daughter… The film begins when this anti-hero crosses a particularly inhospitable equatorial jungle in the company of an incompetent taxi driver. The two soon come face to face with a seemingly menacing Native tribe. When the chef summons them, Vincent Peltier decides to tell his story. He evokes his childhood memories and evokes his lifelong vocation: to become a civil servant. He looks back on a happy existence that was shattered when Minister Roselyn Bacheron (Gérard Darmon who confided in his relations with his ex-girlfriends) announced on a news channel his drastic savings plan, based on downsizing in the civil service. But Vincent Peltier does not hear it that way and intends to resist…

Jérôme Commandeur behind the camera

This is not the first time that Jérôme Commandeur slips behind the camera. Irreducible is his second feature film after My family already adores you! in 2016.”During these years, I had the chance to experience a lot of different things (Europe 1, them Caesar, roles in the cinema…) and I find that good. It was the same with my one-man shows: the 1st dates from 2011 and the 2nd from 2017. Yes! When this topic came up, I didn’t want to let it go!“A story that is not original, however, since Irreducible is the remake of an Italian film, What vado?.

Italy with Jérôme Commandeur sauce

And this Italian film, What Vado? by Gennaro Ninziante, was a huge success in 2016 with nine million admissions on the other side of the Alps. “I saw this film when it was released and very quickly I wanted to adapt it, with the blessing of the producers who told me ‘If you like it, grab the subject, make it your garden…’ What interested me was to bring this very Italian story closer to the concerns that are in our current spirit… We had to see how to move a story written around 2012-2013 in Italy to a story rooted in 2022 in France… In the end, I find that my film has its specificity: it talks about the relationship with women, diversity, environmental issues. All these things that have become unavoidable, essential in 10 years…“And the film is so well adapted by Jérôme Commandeur that you would think the idea was his. Bravissimo!

Irreducible is available on Canal+ and MyCanal