“I can’t watch a movie with a snake. I almost left the theater of ‘Kill Bill 2’”

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He is discreet but thinks no less. Solid, we can count on him to accomplish the job – or even more if circumstances require it – without pulling the rug out from under him. Raphaël Personnaz, deep down, resembles his character of “the richest woman in the world”. In Thierry Klifa’s tragicomedy inspired by the Bettencourt affair, the actor, dyed blond, plays Jérôme, the butler of the Farrère family, fictional ersatz of the dynasty heir to the L’Oréal empire. With its facade neutrality, it is the anchor point for the spectator navigating with amazement in the above-ground daily life of these ultra-rich that a fanciful troublemaker, the aptly named Pierre-Alain Fantin (alias François-Marie Banier), is going to dynamite.

As a counterpoint to the supercharged duo formed by Isabelle Huppert (Farrère/Bettencourt) and Laurent Lafitte (Fantin/Banier), Personnaz delivers. As often. Whether he plays Ravel in “Boléro” by Anne Fontaine, Marius in Daniel Auteuil’s remakes of Pagnol’s classics “Marius” and “Fanny” or…