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Un voyage à travers la comédie au cinéma

17 films

Depuis ses débuts, le cinéma a su faire rire, divertir, et parfois même émouvoir à travers la comédie. Ce cycle propose un voyage à travers les multiples formes de la comédie au cinéma : burlesque, satirique, romantique, absurde ou sociale. Des éclats de rire du muet aux dialogues percutants de la comédie contemporaine, ce genre incontournable offre un reflet vivant des sociétés et des époques.

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  • Comedy, Musical comedy
  • 2023
  • 54min
by Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

Un soir de 24 décembre, quelque part dans une banlieue grise, le jeune Abdou, petit livreur de pizzas rêveur, rencontre le véritable Père Noël, Marcel de son prénom. Le vieil homme est usé et fatigué et un bête accident de scooter compromet sa tournée. Grâce à Abdou, qui met à contribution quelques personnages peu banals de son quartier, la distribution aura bien lieu. Dans un grand foutoir, Noël est sauvé, en musique et en chansons !

  • Comedy, Classics
  • 1966
  • 2h02
by Gérard Oury

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South.

  • Comedy, Literary adaptation, Classics
  • 2002
  • 1h47
by Alain Chabat

It's back in 52 BC. That's right, BC. Although Gaul isn’t totally overrun, Cleopatra’s Egypt is under the yoke of the Roman Empire. What’s worse is that Cleopatra, that dame with the big nose, has had the good sense to chose Caesar for her boyfriend. Caesar is the Emperor of the Greatest of All Peoples. Or so he says.

  • Comedy, Thriller, Classics
  • 1993
  • 1h39
by Alain Berberian

Cannes, the Film Festival, the present day. Odile Deray, a small time public relations executive, has her work cut out for her... getting her film "Red is dead" exposure. It must be known that his movie is a small budget horror movie, unrated and with no-name actors. However, one day, luck is on her side. A murderer commits his crime in the same way as in "Red is dead". What a break : murders, identical as those in her movie, and taking place at the Cannes Festival ! As "exposure" who could want better. Odile rushes her lead actor Simon Jeremi - a thirty-year-old kid, a bit simple - straight to the Cannes Film Festival. She hires a bodyguard, Serge Karamazov, to protect him and it also looks cool. Serge is more interested in looking after the girls rather than his client. Among all the festival madness, Odile, Simon and Kara have their hands full. A killer on the loose, a corupt politician, a police superintendent who can't handle the press and our players must make their way up the steps of the Palais. Even on their way up the red carpet they encounter more trouble...

  • Comedy
  • 2023
  • 1h36
by Bruno Podalydès

Justine, her husband and their circle of friends find a solution to their money problems: they’ll organize a fake romantic cruise for Franck, a wealthy investor set on seduction. There’s just one problem: it’s to Justine that Franck proposes this lovers’ weekend…

  • Comedy
  • 2022
  • 1h36
by Édouard Deluc

Deep in the Pyrenees, two close friends at rock bottom have the idea of the century: to pull themselves of their misery, they will launch a horse trekking tour, a voyage through the mountains for tourists in search of nature, silence and adventure.

  • Comedy, Literary adaptation
  • 2022
  • 1h39
by Murielle Magellan

When Eloise wakes up, she has no memories of her past. Her friends, her job, her family, her life: she truly is a mystery to herself. Patching a few pieces together, Eloise manages to find her flat and her job. However, with no recollection of who she was, she finds herself navigating someone else life. As the days go, Eloise discovers who she was and is not fond of it. Eloise realizes her amnesia is an opportunity. It is time for a fresh start!

  • Comedy
  • 2022
  • 1h11
by Martin Jauvat

Leslie, a disillusioned young suburbanite, drags his best friend Renard into a crappy scheme at the other end of Île-de-France. On a construction site of the future Greater Paris metro line, they discover a mysterious artifact. What easily draw a small ticket. But over the course of their journey, the Parisian suburbs become the scene of strange phenomena.

  • Comedy
  • 2021
  • 1h27
by Zoran Boukherma and Ludovic Boukherma

The disappearance of a vacationer puts the Atlantic Coast on high alert: a shark is prowling in the French waters! Maja, a coast guard on the verge of retirement, goes on her last mission to save the bay…

  • Comedy
  • 2020
  • 1h32
by Bruno Podalydès

Alexandre is unemployed and his bank account has been frozen. His wife is on a two-month top secret nuclear submarine mission. While she’s away, he has to prove that he can take care of the children and find a job. Following a surreal interview, he is hired at The Box on a trial basis – and thus Alexandre enters the 24-7 world of a greenwashed start-up with a strict no-child policy. He meets Arcimboldo, who juggles different jobs and apps and offers to look after the kids in exchange for accommodation. Between Alexandre’s killer colleague Severine, incessant conference calls and endless team building sessions, keeping his secret is no easy challenge…

  • Comedy
  • 2020
  • 1h30
by Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Waxxx

P, a 40-year-old failed actor, decides to organise the first big black protest march in France, but his encounters, often burlesque, with influential personalities in the community and the interested support he receives from Fary, make him oscillate between a desire to be in the limelight and a real militant commitment?

  • Comedy
  • 2019
  • 1h28
by Albert Dupontel

When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she’s seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap, bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant, helter-skelter journey across the city in search of Suze’s long-lost child.

  • Comedy, Young audience
  • 2019
  • 1h02
by Davy Durand, Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier

Once upon a time, there was a naive and passionate Parisian dog named Chien Pourri. With Chaplapla, his faithful alley companion, Chien Pourri roams the streets of Paris with his nose to the wind. No matter what disasters he causes, Chien Pourri always lands on his feet! So much so that the other dogs start to find it suspicious... The crazy adventure of Chien Pourri and his friends to make discover the poetry of Paris to the little ones!

  • Comedy, Classics
  • 1975
  • 1h45
by François Truffaut

In Thiers, in the Puy de Dôme, a handful of children live the last weeks of the school year waiting impatiently for the holidays: Bruno, Patrick, Laurent, Mathieu or Franck, without forgetting Martine... They all live at their own pace and give a soul to this village where the two teachers, Melle Petit and M. Richet, try as best they can to capture their attention as the summer camp approaches.

  • Adventure, Classics, Comedy
  • 2003
  • 1h20
by Sylvain Chomet

Champion is a melancholic little boy, adopted by his grandmother Mrs. Souza. Noticing his passion for cycling, she makes her grandson follow a relentless training. The years go by. Champion has become an ace of the small queen, so much so that he finds himself engaged as a rider in the Tour de France. But during the race, he is kidnapped by two mysterious men in black. Madame Souza and her faithful dog Bruno set out to find him. Their quest takes them across the ocean to a megalopolis called Belleville. There they meet the Triplettes of Belleville, eccentric music-hall stars of the 1930s who decide to take Madame Souza and Bruno under their wing.

  • Comedy, Literary adaptation, Adventure, Young audience, Classics
  • 1960
  • 1h29
by Louis Malle

When the mother of Zazie comes to Paris to meet her lover, she leaves her daughter with her uncle Gabriel. However the reckless and uncontrollable nephew leaves Gabriel's apartment and decides to visit Paris by subway. However the employees are on strike and the runaway girl gets Gabriel into trouble in a chaotic Paris.

  • Comedy
  • 1898
  • 50min
by Alice Guy

Program of 13 short films by Alice Guy made between 1898 and 1907. She is the first fiction filmmaker in the history of cinema. It was she who suggested to Léon Gaumont that he abandon simple animated views to shoot small scripted stories. Authorization is given to her to direct, and this is an exceptional fact in a profession reserved for men. Until 1907, she will reign over Gaumont's production as director, artistic director, screenwriter, experimenting with faking and special effects...

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