There are many French comedies adapted from unknown foreign films in our region. Here are 7 examples. Will you be able to flush them out and thwart the traps?
You don’t necessarily know it when you discover these films at the cinema or on TV, but it is not so rare, especially lately, that French comedies are in fact adaptations, or in other words, remakes of foreign films. Here are 7 examples. Can you recognize them?
A quiz that was inspired by the recent release of Irréductible by Jérôme Commandeur, and in the meantime Liar by Olivier Baroux in July.
Irreducible is the remake of the Italian film Quo Vado? by Gennaro Nunziante. When it was released in 2016, the film achieved the feat of beating Star Wars VII at the Italian Box Office, attracting 9 million spectators and collecting more than $68 million in Italy. For the record, Fabien Onteniente (Camping) had initially been approached to direct the remake of this film.
The pitch? Vincent Peltier, peaceful employee at the “Eaux et Forets” in Limoges, is encouraged to resign because of a staff review, which he wishes the least in the world. An overzealous inspector decides to transfer him to the worst places in the world to push him to give up. She therefore sends him to Greenland to protect the researchers of a scientific base from bear attacks. We let you imagine the rest…
Irreducible is currently in theaters.