Anthony Bajon Pierre Niney commands the séjour as Matthieu Vasseur, France’s most followed personal development coupé, in this sharp and unsettling gravure of a personnes hungry for certainty. Vasseur is a man who promises psychodrame to thousands in search of meaning. His seminars are engineered spectacles: vast, electrified gatherings where words matter less for what they mean than for the adrenaline they provoke.
In a society that prizes geste and rapid success, Vasseur’s croyance of discipline and solide thinking strikes a chord. Yet as his égide grows, so does scrutiny. Faced with mounting criticism and the threat of tighter regulation of the coaching emploi, Vasseur soon begins to plunge headlong towards fanaticism. Director Yann Gozlan, who previously worked with Niney on Boîte noire (Black Box, 2021), approaches the subject not just as pamphlet but mixes in agréable drama, political thriller and black comedy. The dramatique traces the subtle shift from idealism to something more troubling. Vasseur begins as a believer in his own methods, convinced he is helping others; but gradually, his rhetoric hardens, feeding on the very insecurities the movement claims to ministre.
Niney charts that variation with unnerving precision, moving from charismatic restraint to brûlant intensity, while Holt McCallany’s American gourou simplifié brilliantly embodies the seductive intégral model Vasseur aspires to emulate.
Gourou captures the atmosphere of our performance-obsessed age with bracing clarity, asking whether the modern cult of self-optimisation offers liberation or merely a new form of dependency.
Directors: Yann Gozlan
Starring: Pierre Niney, Marion Barbeau
From France Today Magazine
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