for Vic and Poupette fans

If your heart skips a beat at the mere mention of Vic and Poupette, make it a sleepover. Otherwise, it is better to ignore this program without much interest, the product of cacochymous television, mired in nostalgia.

TAll those who were 13 years old in 1980, the year of the theatrical release of The party, are going to get a bit old: the directors of the documentary which looks back on the journey of this film which has become cult had the amusing idea of ​​putting a Walkman in the hands of today’s teenagers… You have to see them return the object with round eyes wondering what it could possibly be! These are the best moments, when millennials comment on the film, like the actors in the film do. Swagger (social chronicle by Olivier Babinet on suburban teenagers): if they do not identify at all with the Germanopratin characters in Claude Pinoteau’s film, they are still experiencing today the same problems encountered by Vic and his gang – conflicts with parents, strained relationships between girls and boys… Otherwise, hearing Suzanne Lindon or Juliette Armanet recite the dialogues by heart does not add much depth to the file…

From the testimonies, we understand that Gaumont, producer of the film, was unable to protect Sophie Marceau from her sudden notoriety, allowing her to be overexploited in the media, and forced Vladimir Cosma, despite being a house star, to work on the film – very embarrassing moments, with the comeback of the singer of the tube Reality…And when Danièle Thompson, the screenwriter behind the project, points out that The party is a film by women (in the three main roles, Sophie Marceau, Brigitte Fossey and Denise Grey) for women, we would have liked to know why Alain Poiré, then producer at Gaumont, did not entrust her with the direction… —