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Masters of Comedy

From their first steps in into the world of cinema to their latest films, through their collaborations with the biggest names in cinema, their great successes but also their failures, ten icons of French-style comedy, look back on their careers and their relationship to cinema.
 
Each episode portrays a filmmaker who, by reacting to the archive images and film excerpts shown to him, delivers countless shooting anecdotes and humbly recounts his artistic journey.
  • Françis Veber (The Dinner Game, The Closet…)
  • Claude Zidi (My New Partner, The Wing or the Thigh, Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar…)
  • Patrice Leconte (French Fried Vacation)
  • Jean-Marie Poiré (The Little Wheedlers, Return in Bond, Men Prefer Fat Girls, The Visitors)
  • Etienne Chatiliez (Life is a Long Quiet River, Tanguy, Happiness is in the Field...)
  • Pascal Thomas (The Dilettante, By the Pricking of my Thumbs...)
  • Coline Serreau (Three Men and a Crade, La Crise, Visit to a Green Planet)
  • Baya Kasmi (The (in)famous Youssef Salem, Le Grand Bazar, I'm All Yours...)
  • Zabou Breitman (The Swallows of Kabul, No and Me, Someone I Loved...)
  • Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional, Taxi, Taken, Nikita...)
  • Éric Lavaine (Barbecue, Back to Mom's, You Choose!...)
  • Bruno Podalydès (Bécassine!, Granny's Funeral, The Mystery of the Yellow Room...)

Direction: Sébastien Labadie & Raphaëlle Catteau

Production: MONEYPENNY PRODUCTIONS

Languages: French

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