Parler pointu

Benjamin Tholozan takes us to the heart of his southern roots. With humor and tenderness, he explores the question of accent, language, and identity, between family heritage and the desire for the stage.

He grew up in a village in the south of France, a Provençal, Latin, violent, earthy land. A land of bullfighting. The trivial and the sacred constantly intermingle there. His entire family still lives there, and speaks with a southern accent. Except him.

To become an actor, he erased his accent. He now speaks "pointu", as they say in the South to designate the Parisian accent, that of normative French spoken in the media and on theatre stages.

In this historical and family epic, accompanied by a musician, Benjamin Tholozan brings into dialogue with passion, joy, and precision the colorful characters of his family, along with the famous figures who made French and the Tourangeau accent the only legitimate way of speaking today.