A return to basics: actor and director Philippe Lacheau, who had his first big success with
Baby Sitting
in Alpe d'Huez, opens the new edition of the comedy festival on Monday with his latest film,
Super -hero in spite of himself
.
"I'm super happy, for us this festival was the start of everything, the start of everything else"
, told AFP the pillar of "La bande à Fifi", whose parents must again to be in the room eight years (and several million spectators) after his first steps in the cinema.
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The film, which is to be released on February 9 in France, once again brings together Philippe Lacheau and his accomplices, Élodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali, Julien Arruti, for an action comedy cut to please the greatest number, which makes fun of the marvel culture.
It kicks off a festival which aligns for its return to theaters, until Sunday, a skewer of essentials of laughter, as well as newcomers.
Alpe d'Huez is
"a clever mix of confirmed and emerging talents, with social comedies, romantics, big machines"
and other more modest ones, according to festival director Frédéric Cassoly.
The jury is chaired by Michèle Laroque, but she will officiate remotely: she has just tested positive for Covid.
It also brings together actresses Mathilde Seigner and Joséphine Japy, comedian Malik Bentalha and director Ruben Alves.
The last edition had to be canceled due to the health crisis.
Among the films in competition,
Irréductible
by and with Jérôme Commandeur, accompanied by Laetitia Dosch, Pascale Arbillot, Gérard Darmon or even Christian Clavier and Valérie Lemercier.
This comedy follows a civil servant transferred
"in the worst corners of France"
by an inspector.
For her third film as a director, Audrey Dana parodies a title by Almodovar with
Men on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
and its cast of male actors, gathered for group therapy in the great outdoors: Thierry Lhermitte, Ramzy Bedia , Francois-Xavier Demaison...
Also on screen will be Audrey Lamy and François Cluzet in
La Brigade
, about the adventures of a canteen
"in a home for undocumented minors"
, or even a film that could make the link between the generations,
Maison de Retraite
, with Kev Adams facing Gérard Depardieu, Liliane Rovere or Mylène Demongeot.
Also on the program is the
Sequined Shrimp
sequel .
