Santa Claus is trash
in December.
Les Bronzés go skiing
in February.
The rule is immutable.
As immutable as a ritual.
However, there is no shortage of films where snow plays an important role.
But from
Will there be snow at Christmas?
to
Snow Therapy
via
Shining
,
The Day After
,
The Pink Panther
,
The Grand Budapest Hotel
,
The Vampire Ball
and even
White Fang
, it is always the comedy of the Splendid troupe that returns to the program.
Invariably.
For what?
To discover
TV tonight: our selection of the day
The answer is in the aforementioned list of films.
Will there be snow at Christmas?
evokes domestic violence and ends with suicide.
Snow Therapy
undermines the image of the father of the family.
The Shining
is a horror film.
The Day After
tells of the end of the world by an untimely and formidable ice age.
The Pink Panther
is too English a comedy, too second-rate - well, you have to love the humor of Peter Sellers.
The vampire ball
is a marvel, a little weird all the same.
White Fang
is a very serious adventure film.
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An object that has become cult thanks to TV
From this short list, only Les Bronzés corresponds to the demands of the general public, the ultralight, the assumed schoolboy, the compilation of cult replicas and the transgenerational.
Released in theaters in 1979, Patrice Leconte's film could be considered totally old-fashioned.
We could also criticize him for his sexist jokes, his total stupidity towards women, his contempt for class and his lack of diversity.
Brief.
The film, which was not a colossal success when it was released in 1979 (1.5 million admissions) became cult thanks to television and its successive rebroadcasts, such as at the end of 2008 when it recorded a peak of 'audiences to nearly 11 million viewers, or in February 2022 with 4.7 million happy fans.
The situations are cult, from the closing of the chairlift to the tasting of shallot liqueur with garlic juice.
The replicas too.
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Like for example this one, from Michel Blanc, in the role of Jean-Claude Dusse, to Gérard Jugnot, in that of Bernard:
“Listen Bernard, I think that you and I have a bit of the same problem, it’s that is to say that we can't really bet everything on our looks, especially you.
So if I can allow myself to give you some advice, it's: forget that you have no chance, go ahead, go for it!
You never know, a misunderstanding could work
. ”
A certain MP from Isère should have remembered this... Above all, forty years ago, there was snow...