COUNTERTIME – The 25th International Comedy Film Festival opened on Monday. Tested positive for Covid-19, President Michèle Laroque was forced to stay in Paris, as was actor Malik Bentalah, a member of her jury.
Jerome Vermelin –
They’re going to have fun… on their couch. Respectively president and member of the jury of the 25th Alpe d’Huez Festival, Michèle Laroque and Malik Bentalah were unable to attend the opening ceremony on Monday, both tested positive ahead of this annual meeting. French comedy.
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It is therefore from a distance that they will discuss the programming of this edition with the “negative” members on site, the actresses Mathilde Seigner and Joséphine Japy and the director Ruben Alves. “I’m going to be president in telework! Can’t wait to see all these films!”, reacted the actress on Twitter.
On Monday, the 25th Alpe d’Huez Festival opened with the screening of Despite himself superheroes, the new film by Philippe Lacheau which brings together the actor-director with his accomplices Elodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali and Julien Arruti.
Ten films are in competition this year. Among them is Irreducible by and with Jérôme Commandeur in the role of a civil servant transferred to the worst corners of France. He is surrounded by Laetitia Dosch, Pascale Arbillot, Gérard Darmon or even Christian Clavier and Valérie Lemercier.
In Men on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Audrey Dana brings together Thierry Lhermitte, Ramzy Bedia, François-Xavier Demaison for a group therapy in the middle of nature while Squad, with Audrey Lamy and François Cluzet, follows the setbacks of a canteen manager in a home for undocumented minors.
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Revenge of the Glitter Shrimp, the sequel to the surprise success of 2019, featuring a gay water polo team or even Retirement home, with Kev Adams facing Gérard Depardieu, Liliane Rovere and Mylène Demongeot are also in the running to succeed Divorce Club, Grand Prix in 2020. Last year, the festival was canceled due to the pandemic.
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