Raphaël Personnaz, the second wind

Watch out for appearances. In a brasserie in Montparnasse, where he gave us an appointment, Raphaël Personnaz has everything of a calm and thoughtful boy. At the turn of a sentence, he nevertheless assures with a smile: “I can’t stand still.” Suffice to say that the actor is delighted with the current period when he promotes two films throughout France: Our brothers, by Rachid Bouchareb, and The vortex of life, by Olivier Treiner.

In the first, he gives the reply to Reda Kateb and Lyna Khoudri in the costume of an inspector in charge of the internal “investigation” into the assassination, by a drunken policeman, of a Frenchman of Algerian origin, Abdel Benyahia The same evening as the death of Malik Oussekine… Two tragedies that occurred on the night of December 5 to 6, 1986, in the midst of student protests, and dealt with as closely as possible to reality – archival images in support. Confirmation by Raphaël Personnaz, impeccable in the guise of this cop torn between his feelings and his hierarchy: “Even though my…