Dans “Hors Normes”, Eric Toledano et Olivier Nakache ont dirigé de véritables autistes. Avec Vincent Cassel et Reda Kateb, les deux comédiens principaux, ils nous racontent comment ça s’est passé, en amont et pendant le tournage.

Dans Hors normes, le nouveau film d’Eric Toledano et Olivier Nakache qui sort en salle ce mercredi, Bruno (Vincent Cassel) et Malik (Reda Kateb) vivent depuis vingt ans dans un monde à part, celui des enfants et adolescents autistes. Au sein de leurs deux associations respectives, ils forment des jeunes issus des quartiers difficiles pour encadrer ces cas qualifiés “d’hyper complexes”. Lors de la présentation du film en avant-première lors du dernier Club 300 d’AlloCiné, les deux cinéastes se sont livrés à l’exercice du question/réponse avec le public et à cette occasion, ils sont revenus sur la manière dont ils ont tourné avec des enfants autistes. 

Une question de temps

“On s’est demandé comment on pouvait raconter au mieux cette histoire, se souvient Eric Toledano. Très vite on a demandé aux médecins, aux gens qui entouraient les associations : ‘Est-ce que vous pensez qu’ils peuvent tourner ?’ Ils nous ont expliqué que c’était une question de temps : le temps qu’on les habitue aux décors, à nous, aux comédiens. Bien en amont, quand on était en montage du Sens de la fête, on a commencé à aller dans des associations, notamment une qui s’appelle Turbulences et qui fait des spectacles avec des enfants autistes et où on a proposé un atelier de théâtre. On a commencé à écrire des scènes et à voir comment ils arrivaient à les jouer.”

“Après, il y a aussi un problème d’éthique qui se pose : est-ce qu’ils ont envie de jouer ? Ça, il y a des moyens de le décrypter, observe-t-il. Par exemple, il y avait des rendez-vous pour cet atelier de théâtre. S’ils revenaient, c’est que ça les intéressait, sinon ils ne revenaient pas. Il a fallu beaucoup de temps et on a utilisé le petit crédit qui était le nôtre pour pouvoir demander aux producteurs du temps pour pouvoir mettre tout cela en place.“

Benjamin Lesieur : le coup de foudre

“La première personne qu’on a approchée, c’est Benjamin Lesieur, Joseph dans le film. Ça a été un coup de foudre, se rappelle le réalisateur. D’abord Joseph, dans le film, il communique, mais en vérité, Benjamin Lessieur ne communique pas du tout. Ça a été une expérience assez riche pour nous, car les autistes sont des gens qui sont dans le lâcher-prise donc le jeu était très facile, il y avait très peu de souci dans la manière dont il se représentait. On l’a choisi, on lui a présenté les comédiens…”

“Moi, j’avais pas mal de scènes avec Benjamin, indique quant à lui Vincent Cassel. Quand on joue avec les autistes, le texte, c’est une espèce de toile de fond dans laquelle on essaie de retomber quand il y a des choses qui sont vraiment importantes au niveau de l’information qui doit être distillée dans le film, mais sinon il faut composer avec lui, qui dira ce qu’il veut, quand il veut.”

De vrais éducateurs

“La grande question, c’était de savoir où la réalité rencontrait la fiction, insiste Eric Toledano. On travaillait avec des enfants autistes, mais que les comédiens ne pouvaient pas gérer, donc notre seule solution, c’était de faire appel à des référents de ces associations. Les deux associations ont une centaine de référents. Au début, on s’est dit qu’on allait prendre des comédiens et les envoyer dans l’association et voir comment ça se passait, mais ça prenait trop de temps. Et quand on débarque, la violence elle n’est pas théorique, elle est concrète. Il y a un espace de préhension et si on le passe quand le jeune ne nous connaît pas, on peut se prendre un coup.”

“C’était trop complexe, donc on a fait l’inverse : la directrice de casting a fait passer les cent éducateurs et évidemment, il y en avait 80 qui étaient bons dans les 100 et on ne savait même plus comment choisir. Le plus gros rôle, c’était l’assistant de Vincent, qui s’appelle Djibril, Fabrice dans le film. Il était tout de suite drôle.”

Ne rien voler à personne

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“On a dit aux comédiens dès le départ que ce serait un travail de longue haleine, qu’il faudrait être dans le contact, être proche de ces enfants. Les deux chefs d’association [Stéphane Benhamou et Daoud Tatou, qui ont inspiré les personnages de Bruno et Malik] ont accepté, puisqu’on faisait le film sur eux, de mettre l’association à contribution. On a demandé à tous les parents, en faisant des réunions pédagogiques, et en expliquant qu’à aucun moment il y aurait un côté voyeuriste, qu’on essaierait au maximum de défendre ce que faisaient Stéphane et Daoud depuis des années.”

“Rien n’a été volé à personne, confirme Reda Kateb. Si par exemple, un jeune autiste, plus fragile que les autres, avait un moment de difficulté, jamais la caméra n’allait le pousser dans ses retranchements, jamais elle n’allait chercher cela. Les autistes que vous voyez, qui ont un rôle vraiment important dans le film, ce sont des gens qui sont des artistes, qui ont déjà des activités artistiques à côté et qui avaient vraiment du plaisir. Rien ne s’est fait autrement que dans le plaisir.”

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Felipe Massa says his Williams “felt undriveable” following first lap contact which eventually forced his retirement from the German Grand Prix.

Jolyon Palmer ran into the back of Massa at the Turn 6 hairpin on the first lap of the race, damaging the Renault’s front wing. Williams couldn’t see any problem with Massa’s car on the data, but the Brazilian slipped back through the field as he struggled with the car’s handling.

A precautionary pit stop allowed Williams to inspect the car and take photos before sending Massa back out on track, but with the problem unclear the team decided to retire in order to properly investigate the issue.

Massa says it reached the point where it was not worth attempting to continue, such was the extent of his struggles with the handling.

“It’s such a shame that someone hit my rear right tyre on the first lap because it felt like something definitely happened to that area of the car,” Massa said. “Perhaps a toe issue or something, because the car felt undriveable. Although I tried to carry on with the race, I was suffering massively.

“The pace was just so slow to the point where it was better to retire than carry on. Now, I’m going to take the summer break as an opportunity to relax with my family and prepare for the second half of the season to make it much better than the first half.”

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Our notion about prisoners is set to get changed after this incident that transpired in the Tihar Jail in the national capital. Jail inmates recently donated a chunk of their daily earnings to raise around Rs. 3 lakh.

They did this to help the family of one of their jail inmates who was granted a furlough but eventually passed away because of heart attack while travelling back from his native village to jail, a report in India Today stated. Not only that, even the jail authority officials picthed with their contributions amounting to Rs 22,000 for the berieved family members.

“This is the first time in the history of prisons, such a strong and impactful message has been given by the Central Jail number 4 inmates to the society, by volunteering to help the family of their fellow inmate, said Rajesh Chauhan, Superintendent, Central Jail No 4, as quoted to as saying by the news portal.Click Here: creed perfume sale

Five high school students died of electrocution after they came into contact with an overhead power line while allegedly trying to remove a flagpole on the first floor of their government-run hostel in Koppal in Karnataka. These students were trying to remove the flag post raised for Independence Day celebrations at their hostel building.

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The incident, according to The Indian Express, took place at the boys’ hostel of Devaraj Urs Residential School in Koppal.

Ahead of this weekend’s German GP, Romain Grosjean has urged Haas to sort out balance issues which affected the Frenchman’s run last Sunday in Hungary.

After starting his race from P11, Grosjean raced only briefly among the top ten before lingering most of the afternoon around P14 where he eventually finished, his VF-16 chassis suffering from a sudden balance deficit.

“The balance was absolutely nowhere, and that’s what I want us to understand before Germany,” Grosjean said.

“After qualifying it’s difficult to know exactly what happened, but clearly something in the race didn’t go as planned, and we had problems we shouldn’t have had.

“We just need to analyse because the car was very much on the nose in high speed, and I had a huge amount of understeer in low-speed corners.

“So we just need to make sure all the maps are correct, there is not something pushing the car, with the front behaving as it should when we turn the wheel. That is where we are going to focus because it was very strange.”

His troubles notwithstanding, Grosjean believes that with every race, Haas’ understanding of the inner workings of its car is improving, especially with regard to tyre management.

“The more time we have, the more experience we build up as a team, the more we can understand the tires. We’ve also created tools to help the tires to work and put them in a good window.”

Grosjean will be running in Hockenheim the same tyre compounds – medium, soft and supesoft – as in Hungary. But while one would believe this would introduce some helpful consistency into the mix, Grosjean minimizes the back-to-back use of the same tyres.

“It doesn’t mean much to have the same tyre compounds on back-to-back weekends. So much depends on the track, the tarmac and the temperature.

“It’s very difficult just to be able to say that because we were good on a certain tyre at a certain track that it just reapplies. You always need to re-think these things and start at the beginning.”

A winner at Hockenheim during his junior career, Grosjean is a fan of the German track which hasn’t changed much over the years in his view.

“It actually hasn’t changed at all since those days. It’s always great to visit somewhere with good memories.

“I won at the circuit in Formula 3, and in Formula Renault 1.6. I won there in the GP2 Series until a post-race penalty dropped me to second.

“Every year is different though. It doesn’t matter what happened in the past. The important thing is to make it count now.”

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There are over nine lakh Rohingya Muslim refugees living in the camps in Bangladesh but despite the global attention their suffering is attracting, they are facing yet another year of uncertainty as funding continues to be a major challenge for the authorities.

Three quarters of the year has already elapsed with only 35 per cent of the required $920 million having been made available, The Dhaka Tribune reported.

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After a frustrating Friday in which Ferrari has struggled for grip and been sliding all over the seven kilometre Spa-Francorchamps circuit in free practice, Saturday saw a marked turnaround in form for the team as it successfully locked out the second row of the grid in qualifying.

“Everything went as planned,” Kimi Raikkonen said afterwards. “It’s nice to be so close but obviously we’d rather be on pole position.

“For sure we had a chance to put it on pole and it would have been easier without going off in the first run [at Stavelot at the start of Q3] but that’s how it goes.

“It would been easier without the first off, because that lap was also very good. On the last lap I lost 0.2s compared to my lap in Q2.

“I felt we had a good chance but I lost time in the last chicane. Is it the conditions? It’s very hard with these conditions for the tyres, but for everybody.

“I don’t know. If we knew it would be much easier to be in these positions all the time. Things have changed quite a few times this year, depending on circuits and conditions.”

Having set earlier times on soft compound tyres, Raikkonen and his team mate Sebastian Vettel both aborted late runs on supersofts at the end of Q2. But Raikkonen insisted that this had all been part of the strategy to ensure they would progress to Q3. As a result the Ferraris will both start on the more durable tyres, as will Nico Rosberg and Daniel Ricciardo.

“I don’t think tyres won’t make a big difference at the start. As long as we make a proper start we should be okay,” he said.

“Who knows what will happen in the first corner? It’s a normal race and we’ll see what happens. We’ll try to make a good start and go from there.

“The start and the first laps are always very important. It won’t decide out race though, it will be quite a tricky race for everybody because of the tyres in these conditions. Hopefully we’ll make the right choices when the time will come, but we’ll see what happens.”

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Over the years deforestation has become a major challenge, not just for the wild animals, but the environment as a whole.

Deforestation has been happening in India, like many other countries around the world for many years now. A host of reasons including the growth in population, need for more farmland, industrialisation, mining and timber logging are often blamed for the rapid deforestation.

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Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz believes he has so far made the most of the hand of cards he was dealt this year, pleased with what he has accomplished in the first half of the 2016 season.

In an exclusive interview with F1i and our very own Chris Medland, Sainz reviews his year to date, his feelings on Max Verstappen’s in-season promotion to Red Bull Racing and his prospects for 2017.

Ultimately, the Spaniard is happy with where he is today in his life as a Grand Prix driver.

“I think I can be very pleased with this first half of the season,” Sainz told F1i

“To do more than we actually have done would have been very difficult. I think the first four races were quite unfortunate for us.

“We had the car to score a lot of points but we didn’t capitalise on it because it was almost like we had this black cat following us from 2015.

“From Barcelona this black cat went away and suddenly the results started to come together. We lost a podium in Monaco which was a big frustration but apart from that we’ve scored points in every race I’ve finished since then except for Baku.

“So I think we can be very pleased and I think we’ve done a big step forward, and me personally also.”

While Sainz admits his own progress and development, he also insists that circumstances, mainly associated with small details which prevented him from showing his true potential,  have changed more than he has.

“What’s happened in the last seven or eight races looks like I’m a completely different driver when I’m not. I’m exactly the same guy as the first four races.”

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A 70-year-old sadhu or ascetic was allegedly killed by a group of people on suspicion of being a child lifter in Panhai village of Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot on September 11.

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The victim was identified as Ram Bharosey from Shahjahanpur, and was staying at a temple in a nearby village and ventured into Panhai, when a few men, driven by rumours of child lifting, became suspicious of his attire and attacked him.

Mob asked him why he had come to the village and that’s when some people lost their patience and began beating him black and blue.