Critics of Hugues Dayez: ‘F1’, incredible but fun

Stéphane, actor of comedy who crosses a difficult pass, agrees to join his former troop to play a boulevard play in Avignon.

Stéphane rediscovers the galleys of the festival off. Consequently, The canvassing in the streets of the city with leaflets to try to drain spectators …

It was then that he saw Fanny again, who had captivated him four years earlier during an internship. For example, Fanny succeeded, she won a Molière, she came to play “Ruy Blas” in the city of the Popes. Thanks to a misunderstanding. Stéphane manages to make him believe that he embodies Rodrigue in “Le Cid”played at the same time in another theater … An increasingly tender complicity settles together, but Stéphane is worried: how to admit to Fanny his subterfuge?

The script for this romantic comedy could have been written by Richard Curtis. critics hugues dayez: ‘f1’, incredible the author of “Notting Hill” and “Four weddings and a burial”: same difference in status between the boy and the girl, even a disenchanted humor …

But if the intrigue based on a misunderstanding is a very old comedy spring. The originality of the film is elsewherein the very fair description of the abstract that separates, at the Avignon Festival, the world of the “serious” the theater subsidized of the jungle of the festival off Where countless small private companies are struggling to reach both ends. We feel that the author of the film. Johann Dionnet, knows what he is talking aboutand was inspired by his own experience as an actor from Boulevard to feed his scenario.

Another quality of “Avignon” is the care taken in making all the characters exist: facing the duo Stéphane/ Fanny (Baptiste Lecaplain/ Elisa Erka). the whole team of “My sister is embedded” is attractive critics hugues dayez: ‘f1’, incredible – with a special mention for Serge (excellent Lyes Salem), the director of the troop riddled with debts who tries to change… Fans of “Romcoms”, “Avignon” is for you!