The series “That is Paris”, directed by Marc Fitoussi, immerses us in the daily life of a Parisian cabaret on the verge of ruin and brings together on the small screen Alex Lutz, Charlotte De Turckheim, Monica Bellucci, Dominique Besnehard and many others. others.
The frills smell of mothballs and the sequined dresses are nibbled by rats. Le Tout-Paris, the capital's emblematic cabaret, passed from father to son, is in bad shape. Its manager Gaspard (Alex Lutz) is preparing to sell it. A supermarket will soon take its place, much to the delight of neighbors annoyed by nighttime noise pollution; he prepares for a calmer life on the Normandy coast with his wife Prune (Anne Marivin). Unless a new magazine restores the establishment's reputation…
Monica Bellucci as review leader
After taking us behind the scenes of an artists agency, part of the “Dix pour cent” team (screenwriters Marc Fitoussi, Edgard F. Grima, Jérôme Bruno and producers Dominique Besnehard and Michel Feller) attack behind the decor of the cabaret and the almost family ties that unite its staff.
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Monica Bellucci and Alex Lutz in “That’s Paris”.
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Monica Bellucci, in her own role, becomes a revue leader, under the orders of a hilarious cyclothymic director (Nicolas Maury), boosted by her investor father (Bernard Le Coq). Charlotte De Turckheim, long and strict silver bob, is the adoptive mother of Alex Lutz while Line Renaud makes an appearance as a former review leader, a role that she knows like the back of her hand since she t was in the 1960s. In “That's Paris”, the “Ten percent” label is very present, it remains to be seen whether the glittery galaxy will be as successful as the famous ASK agency.
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Series in six 52-minute episodes starting Wednesday November 27, 9:05 p.m. on France 2. Available in full on the france.tv platform
