For forty years, French comedy has been running after the duo Gérard Depardieu-Pierre Richard.
In three films at the start of the 1980s (
La Chèvre
,
Les Compères
,
Les Fugitifs
), the skinny and the beefy managed to give a French accent to the
buddy movie
, an American genre which often features the birth of 'a friendship between two beings that everything separates (for example Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in
48 hours
, of Walter Hill).
The merit also goes to Francis Veber, screenwriter and director of these mismatched tandem trips, often imitated, for the best (
Intouchables
, with François Cluzet and Omar Sy) and the worst (
Le Boulet
, with Benoît Poelvoorde and Gérard Lanvin).
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My cousin
could have been called
Le Boulet
.
He has the face of François Damiens (Adrien), crazy sweet cousin of Vincent Lindon (Pierre), stressed CEO of a large group.
Every five years, Pierre must obtain the signature of Adrien, holder of 50% of the company, to have a free hand.
Pierre will therefore have to
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