A tall man It is not a romantic comedy like the ones we are used to in Hollywood. Dianethe protagonist, is a successful lawyer who shares a law firm with her ex-husband. She is very pretty, funny and has a strong personality. One day, she receives a call from a certain Alexandre, who claims to have found the lawyer’s lost mobile phone. On the phone, Diane thinks he’s the perfect man: he’s a charming, polite, funny and cultured guy. However, when they meet up, he’s not how she imagined. Alexandre is 1.36 meters tallbut his height does not prevent Diane from falling in love with him little by little. Together they will face the stereotypes in love, at people’s glances already them social conventions of the people around them. Can love conquer everything?
How tall is Jean Dujardin?
A tall man The film was shot in the French city of Marseille on the Côte d’Azur. The biggest difficulty the crew faced was the height difference between the character and the actor: Alexandre is 1.36 metres tall and Jean Dujardin is 1.82 metres tall, a difference of 46 cm that had to be overcome in post-production with the help of special effects.
The challenge was great, since not only did the character have to be reduced in size, but the head and hands would have been too small. To avoid this, it was necessary playing with perspective of the plans and even filming the actor on his knees with close-ups and frames at shoulder level. In the scenes where he is with Diane, he looked down at her head while she looked at his partner’s chest. Only in this way was the optical effect of a large height difference achieved. In addition, the team had a doble 1.4m tall, who was used to film the back shots. Jean Dujardin was able to interact with him to learn his movements and have references to make his performance more credible.
Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira are Alexandre and Diane in ‘A Tall Man’
The chemistry between Efira and Dujardin
The character of Diane is played by the Belgian actress Virginie Efira, whom we have also seen in films such as Blessed o Sibyl’s reflection. For his part, Jean Dujardin appears in titles such as Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street: Monument Operation, directed by George Clooney; An Officer and a Spy, directed by Roman Polansky; and The Artist, the film that brought her international fame and was a huge success: she won the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA. Together they form the leading couple of this story, which through comedy They seek to break with the cliché that in a couple the man has to be taller than the woman.
At his side we see actors like Cesar Domboyknown for the series Outlandery Cédric Kahn, actor and director of films such as The Goldman Case, which received 8 nominations for the 2024 César Awards.
The cast of ‘A Man of Height’ posing at the presentation
Laurent Tirard is the director
A Tall Man, adaptation of the Argentine film Lionheart, It is directed by the French Laurent Tirard, Best known for making comedies such as Asterix and Obelix at the service of His Majestywhere he also had to use a lot of special effects, or Little Nicholasa film in which his son Virgile Tirard appears in a supporting role. A tall man joins the film catalogue of RTVE Playwhere you can find more free movies like bigwhere Eneko Sagardoy (whom we see now in the series Those About to Die) becomes a giant, What burns, The silence of the swamp o Rocco and his brothers, the film that made Alain Delon a star.
