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Has Philippe Lacheau found the magic potion to always bounce back?

2023-02-10T13:33:46.849Z


ENCOUNTER – Six years after the success of Alibi.com, the director is doing it again by surfing on the classics of comedy and facing the big Asterix and Obelix machine head-on.


Philippe Lacheau has a nightmare, an anguish, one that chills your neck: waking up one day with no idea of ​​a comedy or a gag.

"I hope that will never happen to me,"

he says.

On this cold Parisian morning in February, the nightmare is not relevant.

In the cinema

, Alibi.com 2 has just been released,

the sequel to its great success of 2017. Greg (Philippe Lacheau) has asked Flo (Élodie Fontan) to marry him and must introduce her to his parents.

But what to do when her father is a crook (Gérard Jugnot) and her mother an ex-charm film actress (Arielle Dombasle)?

Greg has no choice but to reopen his service agency with lies and alibis to find fake parents, much more presentable.

This sequel flirts with two key themes of French comedies: the failed marriage and the meeting with the in-laws, often catastrophic to the delight of the spectators.

Risk-free choices, widely explored in cinema by

My stepfather and me 

or

What…

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Source: lefigaro

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