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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 28, 2020 17:13:16 GMT
Did someone watch this French series?
The French version has more information:
This weekend I watched two episodes. It's funny. Excellent acting. It's about a talent agency and each episode has a guest star playing him/herself. The agents, at least some of them, are as everybody imagine them.
I don't know if you can get it on Netflix.
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Post by mllemass on Sept 28, 2020 18:18:16 GMT
I just checked, and it’s playing on Netflix here. I put it on my watch list!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 11, 2020 2:19:32 GMT
I just finished the first season and I really liked it. It's lovely and it's great to see a different French movie star as a guest each episode. This trick kind of remembered me to Ricky Gervais' Extras which it was also great but it was extremely cynical. Here the stars are also parodied themselves but they are ultimately sympathetic human beings. Probably my favorite until now is Audrey Fleurot playing herself as a desperate mother of two with some financial problems.
I particularly loved the ending of the first season: "we will always have cinema".
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 11, 2020 23:46:01 GMT
I watched all the three seasons. The fourth comes in 10 days, at least in France.
The ending was really lovely.
"Here the stars are also parodied themselves but they are ultimately sympathetic human beings." This. I like this very much.
The agents aren't totally nasty. Almost everybody has flaws but also redeemable qualities.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 14, 2020 2:02:34 GMT
I just watched the Isabelle Huppert episode and I totally can imagine BC's professional life being like that! She is showing secretly doing two movies at the same time meanwhile preparing to do her own version of Hamlet. She has an exclusive contract so she is obligated to be available whenever the American producers of one of the films want it and she and the agents try to hide her other multiple projects from them but she just can't stop accepting stuff! At some point she does a radio show in the middle of a hushed trip from set to set.
She ends losing her voice because the overwhelming schedule and is sent to home to rest but while visit her, her agent discovers that she has a famous Korean filmmaker in her house "as a guest" that is doing an experimental movie with her as the star!
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 14, 2020 17:09:07 GMT
That episode with Isabelle Huppert was funny. I don't know much about IH but perhaps she is kind of workaholic or accepts any role she is interested on.
If it were real it must be very stressing for her agents.
The actress playing the nurse playing her was very good.
That the American Producers would believe something like that is a stretch though.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 14, 2020 18:37:07 GMT
I thought it was funny that Americans are portrayed as nasty and unkind types! Not just the producers but both Ben Stiller and Quentin Tarantino are portrayed as divas and/or misogynists respectively! French celebrities, on the other hand, are all eccentric but nice people maybe with the exception of Christopher Lambert (and his great cameo as a lecherous version of himself) but he is actually half American so... After all those cliches of rude nasty Frenchmen, they just turned the tables on!
Anyway, Stiller and Tarantino doesn't appear on screen but I read an actual American star has a starring role in the next season, Sigourney Weaver. It would be interesting to see if she is nice or not! I bet she is nice!
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 14, 2020 19:00:46 GMT
Oh! I forgot the Americans.
Ben Stiller didn't want to have less time than IH, who had change all her speech to her benefit so, perhaps he was right? I understand her role was little.
Tarantino trying to make an actress to use botox! I think that sort of thing -not wanting an older actress, though he has no problem with older men- is very believable.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 14, 2020 19:44:17 GMT
It was funny that Huppert suggests Stiller is a diva because he is supposedly doing the same thing she did minutes before, altering the script so she could have more dialogues, but remember that he also physically fights his director (according to Huppert's story!) and causes a huge brawl on set. That's why the shooting is suspended and she can arrive at time (already dressed and made-up!) to finish the scenes for the French film!
The real Stiller parodied himself in Extras and he plays himself there as a neurotic guy who takes himself very seriously and who isn't very nice to the extras. At the end he gets very angry when Ricky Gervais told him he doesn't remember who he is, Starsky or Hutch !
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Post by dickens38 on Oct 15, 2020 0:35:17 GMT
It's usually the British who play the nasty characters. We are very good at it.
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