With The Ch’tite familybroadcast this Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1, Dany Boon reconnects with his native North. Is this comedy the sequel to Welcome to the Ch’tisthe historic hit of the actor and director?
With him, no need for a compass. When we talk about Dany Boon, whose son had a hard time with his father’s fame, it is almost certain that the discussion will sooner or later head to the North, the region where the actor-director-comedian comes from (he was born in Armentières) and which he regularly evokes in his films or in his sketches. After Welcome to the Ch’tis (2008), a historic hit which still holds second place at the French box office with 20.4 million admissions, and Nothing to declarelocated on the Franco-Belgian border, we’re off again for a tour at the top of the map of France with La Ch’tite famille, a comedy broadcast this Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1 with its procession of accents. Or not quite…
The Ch’tite family is it a sequence of Welcome to the Ch’tis ?
Released in theaters in 2018, La Ch’tite Famille follows Valentin, a fashionable Parisian architect, who has denied his northern origins. But his 100% ch’ti family comes to pay him an impromptu visit during an opening. And things take a turn for the worse when Valentin is the victim of an accident: he wakes up… with his northern accent! Still as authentic, Dany Boon’s sixth production can be seen as a sort of Welcome to the Ch’tis inverted: instead of a Southerner who discovers the North, here is a Northerner who does everything to hide his origins. Not a sequel then, but a continuation of the ideas. The clash of cultures between Valentin’s boho-trendy environment and those close to him gives rise to a succession of funny situations. The Northern accent and expressions play a key role in the plot, the whole family expresses itself with phrasing punctuated with “ch”, “o”, to the point that certain dialogues almost deserve to be subtitled. securities. Everyone gets involved: Valérie Bonneton, Pierre Richard and even Laurence Arné, Dany Boon’s partner, who plays Valentin’s wife and begins to learn ch’ti to better find her companion. Special mention to Line Renaud, a true Northerner, and a devotee of the comedian, both funny and touching in the role of the disowned mother.
The Ch’tite family is it inspired by the life of Dany Boon?
Tender and generous, this family comedy is partly inspired by the life of Dany Boon. Or the one he could have had: “What if, when I arrived in Paris, I had listened to the bad advice of certain producers, who recommended that I forget where I came from and erase my accent? A bit as if Raimu or Fernandel had been told to put aside their southern roots!“, explained the actor and filmmaker in the film’s press kit. In any case, here is a real family… in the North!
