Drunken night: this recent change in size in Josiane Balasko’s play

Released in cinemas in 1986, the cult movie drunken nightcarried by Josiane Balasko and Thierry Lhermitte, will be rebroadcast on Friday July 22, 2022 on the channel TF1 film seriesfrom 9:05 p.m. Directed by Bernard Nauerthis feature film is in fact the cinematographic adaptation of a play imagined by Josiane Balasko and Michel Blanc the previous year. In Paris, one evening on New Year’s Eve. Two policemen carry out the identity check of a woman, embodied on screen by Josiane Balasko, who is waiting for his train at the Gare de l’Est. We learn that she has just been released from prison.

After being treated harshly by the two inspectors, she goes to the café at the Gare de l’Est (former Café de l’Est, now the East Side Café), where Jacques Belin, famous host of the game show, is already located It’s in the bag, interpreted by Thierry Lhermittewho has just won a “Golden Dandy” and looks pretty drunk. The latter is waiting for his fiancée Marlène whose train should not delay any longer. As the evening progresses, Jacques Belin, left by Marlène, and Frède, the woman from the station who is to join her sister the next day in Metz, talk and drink, and end up going to Jean-François Ragain’s social evening. Jacques Belin’s awakening will be memorable.

Night of drunkenness: a new version of the play with Jean-Luc Reichmann in 2018

In 2018, He’s the host of TF1 Jean-Luc Reichmann who took over the role played by Thierry Lhermitte in a new version of the room drunken night, which featured a size change. In fact, the presenter of 12 noon shots suggested to Josiane Balasko that her character no longer wake up alongside a woman, but another man. “The project was risky: risk of distorting the story, the characters, the comedy of the situation. But very quickly, it became obvious, and I had a lot of fun with my new protagonists. (…) This rewriting experience was a very stimulating mind game“, had declared Josiane Balasko at the time.

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