The banter. The passion. The smile in his eyes. And an extraordinary talent, which gives a thousand advantages in the game of this player, addicted to backgammon.
In 2024, twenty years after her sensational debut on the theatrical stage, Alice Belaïdi may currently be taking a new step. The former student of the workshops of the Chêne Noir theater, in Avignon, daughter of a director of the Barbière social center and an artist-mason (“cool baba parents”, she said), was already a sought-after actress in French comedies. Both for her natural and generous acting as well as for the capital sympathy that she arouses as soon as she appears on the screen. But the thunderous enthusiasm that has accompanied Artus’ first feature film, “Un p’tit truc en plus”, since May 1, should push it into another dimension. Four million spectators have already rushed to theaters to cheer this fiction “Feel good”. It was not until her 27th cinema film that Alice Belaïdi enjoyed such success in cinemas. Certainly, “Under the skirts of the girls” with Vanessa Paradis, attracted 1.3 million spectators, “L’ascension” with Ahmed Sylla, 1.1 million and “Les Kairas”, with Franck Gastambide, the million mark. But here, we are already in a mini-social phenomenon, as Sylvain Berthenod, from the research company “Vertigo” explains: “the film reaches all age groups, from children to seniors” and, in fact, does not come up against the glass ceiling of a single “target” audience. “Dune 2”, so far the biggest success of the year, should quickly find itself in the rearview mirror…
