The terrible child of French cinema offers a baroque sentimental comedy with its five-star cast.
Adrienne (Pierre Niney), a young and beautiful dancer whose career is destroyed by a motorcycle accident, takes solace in her new profession as a gigolo on the Cote d’Azur. Protected by Martha (Isabelle Ajan), an aging movie star, he meets Margot (Marine Wacht), a mysterious and fascinating con artist who has set her sights on a wealthy real estate agent (Francois Clouset). Desperate to change their lives, Adrien and Margot will devise a Machiavellian scheme: a sentimental masquerade of love manipulation. How far will they go?
after OSS 117: Red Alert in Black AfricaReleased in August 2021, Nicolas Bedos was quickly followed by a fourth film, Masqueradefilmed in the same summer of 2021. In competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival last May, this crazy comedy brings together a five-star cast; in addition to the four actors mentioned above: Emmanuelle DeVos, Charles Berling, and Laura Morante. complete distribution.
Nicholas Beddoes originally conceived this story for a novel that he ultimately never published. He preferred to make a film about these deceptions, crimes and passions. “It’s a very subjective portrait that I wanted to make of the Côte d’Azur, whose name is associated in my mind as much with Francis Scott Fitzgerald and the eccentricities of a decadent elite as it was not so long ago with the ubiquity of Russian oligarchs, the grandeur of champagne under the sun and the competition for vulgarity in real estate. “, he stated in an interview given to the producers of Les Films du Kiosque, not without malice. The release is scheduled for November 1.
In the video, OSS 117 – Red Alert in Black Africateaser with Pierre Niney
Source: Le Figaro
