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OSS 117: Red alert in black Africa: an average Frenchman with a license to kill

2021-08-03T13:48:46.525Z


CRITICAL - The director Nicolas Bedos is up to him, in this reconstruction of a time when we drove in R12 and when the first computers discouraged the best wishes.


The world has changed and our favorite agent has noticed nothing.

Such an unconsciousness constitutes the most gratifying spectacle.

OSS 117 thinks in generalities, reasons using commonplaces.

The perfect average Frenchman of the 1960s, a model that is no longer made, but which would have the license to kill.

The credits of

OSS 117. Red Alert in Black Africa

parodies those of James Bond, a languid song destined to climb the charts, giant bottles of spirits, heroes in a tuxedo pointing his gun at the audience.

The title, already: the tone is set.

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In 1981, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath was taken prisoner by the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Of course, he survives.

Normal, he's the best.

He's the one who says it.

His superior does not deceive him.

The spy, however, begins to get in the way of the service.

He continues to put his hand to the buttocks of secretaries, to believe himself irresistible in his sky blue suits, to scuttle all his missions.

It's time to provide it

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Source: lefigaro

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