“Your father, he didn't say the troupe… He said the family!” This is how Babeth (Charlotte de Turckheim, brilliant!) addresses her son, Gaspard, in the first episode of the mini-series That’s Paris! With a spectator count that no longer exceeds 45%, the cabaret Le Tout-Paris and its revue, which smells of mothballs, its topless dancers, its knife thrower and its trained llama are no longer really popular.
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A little lost, Gaspard Berthille, played by a Alex Lutz seemingly gentle and dreamy, is preparing to sell the establishment to an investor who plans to set up a supermarket there. A sale that he has kept secret from his employees, while he is preparing to move to Normandy with his wife, Prune (Anne Marivin), a former banker, and the couple plans to reinvent their lives by creating a guest House. But there you go, how do you make a clean slate of the past when your childhood memories constantly bring you back to this place that made you dream, to these people, to this very special universe? Maybe Gaspard has a choice, maybe Le Tout-Paris can also reinvent itself?
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The initial idea for this series came from a Crazy Horse dancer, Marina Difossedied in 2020. Her stage name at Crazy, from 1981 to 1989, was Rita Xenon. One day, while the first season of Ten percent on behind the scenes of the world of actors' agents is broadcast on France 2, she suggests to Dominique Besnehard, ex-agent himself, actor and co-creator of the series, to do something equivalent on his …
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