Winner of Locarno’s Signs of Life section, Benjamin Crotty’s “The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin” has enjoyed more than 12 months of festival success and critical acclaim as it reaches the …
A modern take on one of France’s most influential yet widely unknown characters, the film headlines Nicolas Chauvin, a farmer-turned-soldier in Napoleon’s First Army of the French Republic. Although some sources claim the 17-times injured in defense of France Chauvin was a real person, it’s now commonly accepted that he was an invention meant to represent nationalistic values prominent among soldiers at the time.
Source material was extremely important to me here. I came to know of Nicolas Chauvin through a short piece by Joshua Cohen that I still vividly remember reading. I was alone in a park in Paris and I started laughing out loud. It’s a pretty outrageous piece of writing.
It was from a 19th century engraving of a Napoleonic era farmer-veteran, who comes upon a skeleton of a soldier, while plowing his fields once back from the wars , that I got the idea for the zombie crusader soldier character they find in the field. Alexis is an actor who is looking for challenges and wants to push his limits. He has a great combination of a solid work ethic – which was important since this was a demanding role textually and we were shooting on film with pretty long takes – while still being modern and spontaneous in his performance and delivery. We shot before “Les Miserables,” so his career has really blown up since, but I’m not surprised, and I hope it continues to do so.
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