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Hugo David and Raphaël Quenard • Directors of I Love Peru

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09/07/2025 - We met up with the directors behind the playful mockumentary revolving around a real/fake Raphaël Quenard: a young actor who rides high, all the way to Peru

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We have met the new pertussis of the French cinema for "I love Peru" , a false documentary and self-portrait debossed by an actor who disembarks by his flowery speech regime and his taste for provocation. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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The actor co-directs with Hugo David a first parodic film, which monkeys the codes of the documentary, and where improvisation is confused with a lack of preparation.

·Paris, France
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With his friend Hugo David, Raphaël Quenard stars in an autobiographical work with an improbable pitch, about a disoriented actor who goes to Peru to give his life spiritual meaning. Packed with self-deprecation and absurd humor, this is a delightful, offbeat, and endearing little film. Interview.

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The actor, who cartoons with his novel "Clamser à Tatatouine", has co-directed the comedy "I love Peru", which is released this Wednesday. In this docu-fiction, he stages himself as an unpredictable, subversive and ultra-opportunist actor. A distant character of the "real Raphaël Quenard", that he is a...

·Paris, France
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Between the self-portrait and the hoax, "I Love Peru", by Raphaël Quenard and Hugo David, is a cinematic object as surprising as it is nicely destabilizingRaphaël Quenard, it is this energist who got into French cinema in 2023 in Yannick, by Quentin Dupieux. He incarnates an exasperated spectator and decides to take a show hostage. With his draw of great guy with rather advantageous physics but with the unique phrase of his kind, he was there fo…

Raphaël Quenard's resistible ascent filmed by his friend Hugo David from the shooting of "Cash Dog" for which the actor received the Caesar of male revelation, until an unlikely journey to Peru, a journey where the initiatory drowns in the absurd and vice versa.

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Le Parisien broke the news in Paris, France on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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