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"Not everyone is going to love everything you do. How you receive things is very personal. I don't have much to do with that side of things because I'm just doing my job. But I loved making all three films and I'm very happy to get to do it again."

—Daisy Ridley for AlloCiné about Star Wars Celebration

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EUHM ?? TED LASSO SEASON 4 ?? LETS GO ?????? WTF ????

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Pedro Pascal for AlloCiné

Bonus:

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Image from Allociné

[frenchcurious]

RIP David Soul - 1943-2024.

source AlloCiné.

[adarkrainbow]

I have been sharing things about French fairytale movies. We have been talking about Cinderella. As such I want to speak about a movie I actually can't really speak about because I have not seen it... But I need to just talk about it because... Well, you'll get it. It is the 2017's Les Nouvelles Aventures de Cendrillon (The New Adventures of Cinderella).

Now to understand WHERE this movie comes from, we need to return to 2015 and the release of another movie "The New Adventures of Aladin".

This movie is a comedy, an humoristic retelling/parody of the Aladin tale - France has quite a history of One Thousand and One Nights-cinema, and already humoristic takes on similar stories had been done (Gérard Jugnot had notably played in an humoristic Ali Baba movie I saw when I was young, for example). Here the main star and the actor playing Aladin is Kev Addams, which was then a young humorist that had been on the rise for quite a few years and was an "idol of the youngs", so to speak. The gist of the movie is: two thieves are disguising themselves as Santa Clauses in modern-day Paris to steal at the Galeries Lafayette. But they are stuck with a group of children who asks them for a story - and so to get rid of them, they decide to tell them an improvised version of the story of Aladdin, which in turn parallels the real-life events surrounding the thieves.

[Note the writing of "Aladin" with one "d", to carefully avoid any Disney lawsuit.]

This movie was very, very popular in theaters. It was popular enough to actually get a sequel called "Alad'2" (a pun on how "in" sounds like "un", "one"), which also was one of the leads of the box-office in France, and brought in another French humorist, this time of the "previous generation" before Adams - Jamel Debbouze:

But there was one problem... Both movies were absolutely torn to shreds by the critics. In newspapers, on websites, everybody agreed that these movies were actually bad, and not at all good movies nor great comedies. In fact, the reviews of the movies and the sales corresponding to it clashed so much it caused an online scandal when it came to the website AlloCiné (one of the French websites of reference when it comes to cinema), who was openly accused of faking reviews and inventing profiles to boost this movie's note - because it seemed impossible, with all the negative critics and the backlash, that the movie could obtain a mid-rating (3/5).

All of that to say, these movies were very polarizing - seen as embodying the typical bad comedies and a certain "downfall" of French cinema everybody has been talking about in the 2010s, and yet being massively mediatized and very popular among young audiences especially, and bringing in a lot of cash...

Now we reach our movie. Welcome "The New Adventures of Cinderella"! Which technically seems like a spin-off of the Aladin movies, and yet by its chronological placement seems to be a sequel "by the principle", not directly following it while still reusing its principle and referencing the previous movie (this movie was released BEFORE Alad'2)

This movie basically does what "Les Nouvelles Aventures d'Aladin" did - it is an humoristic retelling/open parody of Cinderella, framed as an adult being forced to tell a story to children. In this case it is Julie, a young girl who finds herself alone on the day of her birthday, without anybody remembering it... Until Marco, the man she secretely loves (and the son of her boss) calls to tell her he is coming over. Filled with hope she awaits... only to discover Marco brings her his son because he needed a last-minute babysitter. Stuck with this particularly bratty child, Julie is forced to tell him a story, and fed up with everybody treating her like a servant, she decides to tell a version of Cinderella where she plays the main role - and Marco is the prince she tries to win. Other characters from her life are recast: her boss is the king, her bitchy colleagues are the wicked stepsisters, her annoying neighbor if the evil stepmother... And Snow-White with her seven dwarves pop up at some point - because just like with the "Aladin", Disney references are quite present...

The main actress (Cinderella/Julie) s Marilou Berry, who truly was noticed and became quite famous thanks to playing in "Vilaine", and after passing by a series of movies (including "Les reines du ring"), she had another focus thanks to the success of the "Joséphine" movie. The cast also gathers other actors quite used to the world of comedy, ranging from older generations of the "classics" (Josiane Balasko as the wicked stepmother, Didier Bourdon as the king) to more recent ones (Arnaud Ducret as the prince Marco, Vincent Desagnat as the prince's older brother).

Now, I have not seen the movie, so I can't confirm or infirm this... But when it was released, this piece got bashed. Really, really hard. Harder than the Aladin movie, from people simply calling it "unfunny" and "cringe" to other actively pointing it out as being offensive and sexist, if not misogynistic. Aladin's note online roughly went around a 3/5. This one hesitated between 2/5 and 1,5/5. Now, again, I can't say I agree or disagree with these reviews because I have not seen the movie - and we all know a mass-opinion can be wrong. It seems more recently kinder reviews have been opping around the Internet - pointing out that all the backlash ths movie received was exaggerated and the piece was better than what everybody descibed.

Now, if you want my two pences of thought, I do believe that maybe this has to do with the audience that went to see these movies. As I said, Kev Adams was quite the "idol of the youth" when he did the Aladin movie (I don't know if he still is), but he had a BIG fanbase among teenage girls for example, as well as a certain scope to a young audience. And precisely who kept talking about these Aladin movies and who was more interested in those Aladin movies? Children. Meanwhile this Cinderella movie lacks any star or face that a young audience could recognize - no real Kev Adams. Yes, Marilou Berry is here, but her audience is not known to be young children - and as such, I do believe that the Aladin movies were favored by having a natural "fanbase" and already formed young audience ready to dig in. Meanwhile here two of the prominent stars are actors who symbolize the humor of the 20th century and are now quite aged - Balasko and Bourdon - who will speak to adults, but probably not to children... Anyway I am really speaking out of anything here, especially since I haven't seen the movie, but I do believe that this played a part in how this movie was received in a lesser way than the Aladin ones. (Plus the Aladin movies were clearly aimed at a male audience, which coupled with Kev Adams' natural teenage girl fanbase and the big success of Disney's Aladdin among girls, made sure both genders could go see it without shame - meanwhile this movie is clearly a "girl movie" meaning the audience is already restricted a bit more... And as such much more offended - as I said the movie was accused of being a piece of misogynistic jokes (doesn't help that there are only men who wrote and directed this movie).

But again, it might also have to do with the movie just being bad, you know. After all the man behind this movie (Lionel Steketee) is not the one that made the first Aladin movie (Arthur Benzaquen) but rather the one that did its lesser-appreciated sequel... Though the same script-writer was used for both (Daive Cohen).

Now, my only question, from what I have seen (extracts and trailers and previews) is actually... What is the target audience? Maybe it will clear up when I get to see the movie but this is all framed and sold as a kid-friendly entertainment, it even being an "all-public" movie to which families are supposed to be able to bring their kids but... a lot of the jokes I have seen are typical of adult things. I mean there's a lot of sex jokes for example, which made me think originally this was an adult movie, but then it also kind of is framed and written as a kid-level comedy and... Yeah this leaves me a bit confused. Just take the movie's poster, at the top of the post... You can't tell me there isn't a big sexual innuendo in the way the prince "rides" Cinderella! And yet it is sold as a movie kids can go watch and that isn't for a more mature audience? Anyway, I do not have a lot to say, since I haven't seen the movie, but I wanted to make a "preparation" post for when I will get to see it.

(I will just add that while some of the jokes I have seen do seem really bad - like a certain joke about a character's throat which was used already in Les Visiteurs 3 and seems really out of place in a kid movie, clearly taken from the Men in Black - some actually made me laugh. Most notably there is a great slapstick moment you can glimpse in the trailer where the Lady Tremaine-like stepmother just... headbutts Cinderella for speaking to her. I did quite like this joke as it subverts the pose and subtle threat of the Disney-wickedstepmother, while also clearly dedramatizing the violence into a goofy, cartoonish way. But that's just me.)

[lil-motherfuckin-ravioli]

I'm watching a movie

From this screenshot right there. The movie is called "Happy Time Murders", I love it. I LOVE IT TOO MUCH ?!!!! There's everything ffs, sex, kinks, bdsm, murders AND FUCKING VAGAGA ?! Even if it's noted 2.5/5 on allociné (a french movie website) I really enjoyed it and .. well, some scenes are a delight ..... :))) Did you watched it @the-muppet-joker ??

[supernovaofthoughts]

I am blown away

I just binge watched this beauty and I am blown away. I usually hate zombie media (CoD II Zombie mode traumatized me) but honestly, this kdrama handles them in a way that makes them bearable and the series is so much more than just a zombie apocalypse. The historical setting, the characters, the political plot ... chefs kiss !! We need season 3 now !

Picture is not mine and was found on "Allociné"https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie=21839.html

[cambrioleur]

Recently Ludivine Sagnier (Claire) gave an interview to AlloCiné and was asked about what was going on with Lupin and a potential Part 4:

"'C’est toujours difficile de prendre le risque et de renouveler. Dans le fonctionnement des séries, une saison 2 fait toujours un peu moins bien que la première et la troisième un peu moins bien que la précédente. Il y a cette peur de décevoir qui fait peut-être reculer l’échéance. Mais c’est une fierté de jouer dedans. J’ai du mal à le concevoir, les chiffres dépassent ceux du box-office français. J’aime beaucoup être au côté d’Omar. La série est joyeuse et divertissante, et les spectateurs méritent une dernière petite saison quand même…', conclue-t-elle avec un sourire malicieux."

My translation:

"'It's always difficult to take the risk and renew. The way shows work, a second season habitually does a little less well than the first, and the third a little less well than the one before it. There is this fear of disappointing, which might push back the due date. But I'm proud to be in it. I find it hard to imagine, the figures surpass those of the French box office. I really love being by Omar's side. The series is joyful and entertaining, and anyway the viewers deserve a last little season...' she concludes with a mischievous smile."

Because, much like Guédira, I'm a sicko, I'm going to go through this line by line in an attempt to decode it.

"It's always difficult to take the risk and renew. The way shows work, a second season habitually does a little less well than the first, and the third a little less well than the one before it."

This is objectively true, though at a certain point you probably achieve a viewership base that will continuously return. Part 3 had 50 million completed viewings in the relevant 13-week period that Netflix tracks these things, which ranked something like third or fourth for the second half of 2023. While lower than Part 1 and Part 2, that's still a very good score, particularly in light of the two-year gap. (For reference, Shadow and Bone, a show that was cancelled, only managed 25 million. I think Netflix usually likes things to be at least in the 35-40 million range, though small-budget shows like Heartstopper get more leeway.)

"There is this fear of disappointing, which might push back the due date."

The mention of a due date ("due date" or "deadline" being the best translations I could find for échéance) here is interesting. And getting really into the weeds, the fact that she used the phrase "fear of disappointing" rather than "fear of disappointment" is equally interesting. To me, this suggests that scripts are being worked on, but haven't been completed yet because...I guess they're being perfectionists because they don't want to disappoint the Netflix France bosses? This tracks with a few other pieces of evidence I collected:

an interview given by Soufiane Guerrab back in February in which he was asked about Lupin and said that "very nice things are coming" but that he couldn't talk any more about it

an article about French TV writers Florent Meyer and Tigran Rosine, who worked on Lupin early on, which asserted that they had "just gotten the direction of the writing back for the fourth season, in aid of Briton George Kay" (Kay being the creator and main writer)

Netflix's second-half-of-2023 viewership report which explicitly cited Lupin as an example of a good continuing show and made reference to its "first three parts"

Around the time Part 1 came out Ludivine Sagnier said that she'd had some input into the development of Claire as a character, and last year George Kay suggested in an interview with a Romanian newspaper see how far I go to find info here?? that she'd wanted to do more interesting things so they wrote that scene where she steals the book from the library. All of which is to say that she probably has some knowledge of what's going on in the writer's room but can't really confirm anything because of NDAs and such.

My overall theory here is that Netflix France isn't confirming any renewals until scripts are finished and approved. This tracks with the fact that Pax Massilia, a show I didn't see and don't really give a shit about, has been confirmed to be returning -- multiple times -- by its writer/director, but it hasn't been confirmed by Netflix France (in fact, back in the spring, they asserted they hadn't made any decisions yet; this was after the director had first made his claims, and he's gone on to make similar claims even after that). They recently had a changing of guard administratively so that might have something to do with it.

"But I'm proud to be in it. I find it hard to imagine, the figures surpass those of the French box office."

For reference, the highest grossing movie ever in France, Titanic, had 22.3 million admissions. Omar Sy's movie Intouchables had 19.5 million. So 50 million completed viewings obviously goes beyond that.

"I really love being by Omar's side."

Aww. She always talks about him really glowingly and seems like a very affectionate person in general.

"The series is joyful and entertaining, and anyway the viewers deserve a last little season..."

Unfortunately it probably would be the last season, though I guess you never really know for sure. But if they give everyone a nice send-off, I'd be cool with that.

They then editorialize and say that she had a "mischievous smile" while saying this as though it implies something, to which I'm like, have you seen what that woman looks like? She always smiles like that. But to be fair I don't know how mischievous it was because I wasn't there. (I am never beating the "has an embarrassing crush on Ludivine Sagnier" allegations because it's true)

Anyhow, if you got to the end of this...congratulations, I guess. Let's hope we get some concrete news sooner or later.

[pascal-et-sarah]

Le cinéma au Vietnam

Si vous nous connaissez vous savez que lors de notre vie parisienne il y a pas mal de nous croiser vers 9h le samedi matin à l'UGC Ciné Cité les Halles à Paris. Ce petit plaisir de la salle vide et du film qui permet d'attaquer le week-end du bon pied nous a donné tout de suite envie d'essayer d'aller au cinéma à Hanoï. Des petits oiseaux qui bossent dans l'industrie nous ont dit qu'au Vietnam il y avait pas mal de cinéphiles donc on partait gagnant.

Le marché a l'air (je dis a l'air, parce que bien sûr je n'en sais rien) d'être tenu par trois grosse chaînes

CGV un grande chaîne coréenne (cf. l'autre blog), si jamais vous cliquez sur le lien bin ça ne fonctionnera sans doute pas parce que l'accès est réservé aux vietnamiens (because reasons...).

Lotte Cinéma une grande chaine de cinéma coréenne (vous voyez le pattern?)

Galaxy Cinéma une chaine peut être Vietnamienne mais de toute façon à Hanoï il n'y en a qu'un et il est loin de tout...

Qui dit cinéma dit (en France) Allociné. J'ai fini par trouver un équivalent local et surtout disponible dans la langue de Shakespeare le bien nommé Moveek.

Une fois qu'on sait qu'il y a des cinémas, la question est de savoir si on peut aller voir des films (si vous n'avez pas eu le mémo, on ne parle pas trop Vietnamien...). Et bien on dirait qu'on a eu de la chance, les films américains sont en anglais avec des sous-titres en vietnamien et les films vietnamiens on souvent des sous-titres en anglais. Ensuite on parle de prix et c'est très raisonnable (c'est pas l’Angleterre quoi), pour les places normales (vous verrez) il faut compter entre 100K et 150k VND (entre 4 et 6€) puisque les tarifs fluctuent en fonction des jours de la semaine.

Pour le reste c'est un peu comme en France, les films sortent le vendredi (USA style) et on peut réserver sa place sur internet. Petite amélioration/différence on peut réserver sa place comme au théâtre. Par contre elles ne sont pas toutes au même prix 🤷‍♀️

Par contre là où ils sortent le grand jeu c'est dans les salles (on dit cinéma pour salle ici mais bon) "l'amour" (en français et tout). Là au lieu d'un fauteuil vous avez le droit à un lit avec une tête de lit, une couverture, des oreillers.. Thé, café offert... Bref c'est le luxe, presque 10€ par personne donc vaut mieux.

Pour finir cette article une petite critique express. Le premier film vietnamien de ma vie, vu au Vietnam.

Ke an Danh (2023) 6/10 Alors pour ce qui est du scénario ça n'est pas très compliqué vu que c'est Taken (bises à Olivier Mégaton). Un beau-père au lourd passé est obligé de se bastonner avec pleins de gens pour sauver sa fille. Voilà c'est tout.

En dehors de ça, le film est plutôt plaisant, pas trop long, les bastons sont belles et pas trop mal filmées. Au global ça passe plutôt bien si ce n'est un certain nombre de dialogues et de situations incompréhensible pour nous (mais peut être qu'il faut blâmer la traduction anglaise). Je ne pense pas qu'il sera disponible en France un jour mais on ne sait jamais.

Bises et popcorn 🍿

[tina-chou-17]

Coucou

Hey bonjour tout le monde,

non je ne suis pas morte, je suis toujours là, mais avec bcp moins de temps.

voici une petite liste de manga anciens (avant 2000) à regarder.

Marc et Marie

Planète Jeunesse - Marc et Marie (planete-jeunesse.com)

Ranma 1/2

Ranma ½ (nautiljon.com)

Sakura Chasseuse de Cartes

Card Captor Sakura (nautiljon.com)

Argai

Argaï, la prophétie | Wiki Doublage francophone | Fandom

Juliette je t'aime

Juliette je t'aime | Wiki Encyclopedia Anime | Fandom

Max et Co

Max et compagnie (série) : Saisons, Episodes, Acteurs, Actualités (ecranlarge.com)

Signé Cat's eyes

Cat's Eyes - Série | MYTF1

Papyrus

Papyrus - Série TV 1997 - AlloCiné (allocine.fr)

Saiyuki

Saiyuki (manga) - Wikipedia

Yu-Gi-Oh

Yu-Gi-Oh! | Netflix

Les malheurs de Sophie

A regarder sur youtube, il y a aussi des compilations

Sailor Moon

Même si la série est hyper longue, il y a sans doute quelque part une série Kai

Où regarder la série Sailor Moon en streaming (justwatch.com)

Hunter X Hunter

La première série vaut encore le détour. Publié sur Youtube, je ne sais pas si elle y est encore.

Princesse Sissi

(1) 01 Sissi n'en fait qu'à sa tête - YouTube

Sophie et Virginie

(1) Sophie et Virginie - Episode 27 - Une réunion de famille - YouTube

Les misérables

(1) Les Misérables - Épisode 1 - L'auberge des Thénardier (1992) - YouTube

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Jeremy Strong talks about his roles to Allociné in Cannes

[chansonsinternationales]

"Pour les amoureux fous du cinéma" : ce film bouleversant de 4h12 va vous marquer à jamais ! - Actus Ciné - AlloCiné