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For lack of festival, Alpe d'Huez labels 18 comedies "official selection"

2021-03-05T09:40:34.434Z


Les Tuche, the first film by comedian Inès Reg and adaptations by Fabcaro were acclaimed. A way for the festival to “support the French cinema industry and reward its talents”.


Scheduled in January, postponed to the end of March, the Alpe d'Huez comedy film festival will ultimately not take place.

As a consolation prize, the 2021 edition, aborted due to the health crisis, unveiled a list of films labeled "

official selection

".

In total, 18 comedies were selected, enough to titillate the zygomatic of the spectators a little, for lack of anything better.

Read also: Faced with the Covid, the Alpe d'Huez festival gives up its 2021 edition

Among them, big locomotives, including

Les Tuche 4

by Olivier Baroux, the new part of the band's adventures to Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Michel Blanc ... The film was due out last Christmas and was postponed to many times.

He is now promised for December 8.

The label is also awarded to two adaptations of one of the kings of comics and the comic book, Fabcaro:

Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï

by François Desagnat with Jean-Paul Rouve again, and Julie Depardieu, and

Le Discours

, by Laurent Tirard with Benjamin Lavernhe.

One of the films selected is an Amazon Prime production, which will be released on the platform, for its subscribers: it is the first feature film by comedian Inès Reg, shot with his companion Kévin Debonne and Rodolphe Lauga,

Je te don't want me either

.

Only one other film in the selection is directed by a woman,

Men on the verge of a nervous breakdown

, by Audrey Dana with Thierry Lhermitte, Ramzy Bedia and François-Xavier Demaison.

The creation of this label "is

based both on the desire to support the French cinema industry and to reward its talents, but also to create a benchmark, a positive indicator for the general public

", underlined the festival in a statement.

Unable to be held last May, the Cannes Film Festival had already resorted to the publication of an official selection of films, to be able to accompany them in the rest of their journey.

Source: lefigaro

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