The director of “Braquo” told the magazine “Here” the reasons why he will no longer publicly support his former colleagues.
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Por Olivier Marchal, the white line has been crossed… The thriller director 36 Quai des Goldsmiths (2004) now refuses to enter the arena to defend the police. His positions have earned him serious personal problems, as he confides this week in the columns of the magazine Here is. “I’ve always taken sides, but now I don’t because it’s my children who are threatened with death,” he explains.
“When I took the side of the police, it went very far,” he continues, without going into details – Olivier Marchal is the father of four children aged 13 to 28. “Me, I made my life, I went after my dreams. It’s just that I have children and I have the tokens for them. »
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Two years ago, the filmmaker published a column, “Larmes de cop”, in which he denounced the continual attacks on the police, “ordinary guys, with shitty salaries, serving the citizens, who continue to do their job in appalling conditions. In particular, he criticized artists who “vomited up” those they “acclaimed” until recently “because they had risked or given their lives to protect their” life as a privileged citizen from terrorism “.
Against a current
Invited at the time on the set of BFMTV, the one who worked ten years in the PJ and the RG in the 1980s added to it without taking gloves, aiming for the positions of certain committed artists, like Omar Sy or Camélia Jordana, against police violence. “Me, I like the cops. When I got my cop card and my caliber, I called my father and I’m proud of it, he said bluntly. I’m fed up that sort of second-class actors continue to shit on the cops, while they are people who live in privileged neighborhoods, who do privileged jobs and who, above all, bring this hate speech which is not acceptable. »
In Here isthis week, the director of the series Braquo calls himself more of a philosopher. “I let the world go where it’s going, which is to say not much. And, as Simone de Beauvoir said, death seems much less tragic to us when we are tired. This does not prevent him from supporting his former profession by continuing to shoot films that reveal behind the scenes of the profession.
His last feature film, Overdose, on the middle of the drug, comes out on Prime Video. He also begins, 20 years later, the continuation of 36 Quai des Goldsmiths, in which Daniel Auteuil should make an appearance. “The other time, I was shooting The Crimson Rivers, says Olivier Marchal. Guys from the BAC stop, the patrol leader, 50 years old, in uniform, takes me in his arms and says to me: “thank you, we only have you. If you don’t continue, we’re nothing to anyone.” It really moved me. »