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Director:
Alain Berbérian
Writers:
Alain Berbérian (writer)
Jean-François Halin (writer)
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Release Date:
29 April 1998 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
At a football match, an unscrupulous photographer, Michel Verdier, takes pictures of a celebrity couple... more | add synopsis
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Pleasant enough time-filler more (3 total)

Cast

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Vincent Lindon ... Michel Verdier
Patrick Timsit ... Franck Bordoni
Catherine Frot ... Evelyne Bordoni
Nathalie Baye ... Nicole
Isabelle Gélinas ... Sandra
Elise Tielrooy ... Bénédicte
Didier Bénureau ... Dacharie
Géraldine Bonnet-Guérin ... Julie
Tim Doughty ... M.C. Watson
Christophe Hémon ... Xavier
Jean-Noël Cridlig-Veneziano ... Nicola
Christophe Guybet ... Médi
Stefan Elbaum ... Foreman
Dominique Besnehard ... Dédé
Hichem Rostom ... Kabouli
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Runtime:
Canada:109 min | Japan:111 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification:
South Korea:15 | France:U | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud)
Company:
Canal+ more

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Pleasant enough time-filler, 27 October 2007
6/10
Author: TrevorAclea from London, England

"You two really ought to ****-****. You have all the disadvantages of marriage, so you might as well have the advantages as well." Alain Berberian's 1998 French comedy Paparazzi (not to be confused with the Mel Gibson-produced American revenge movie) feels like the kind of thing that Francis Veber would have made with Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard in the early 80s. Patrick Timsit is the 'Pignon'-like sad sack who loses his job when Vincent Lindon's paparazzi gets a cover shot of a couple of celebrities that unfortunately shows Timsit at a football match when he should have been at work. Determined to find out the identity of the photographer, Timsit instead finds himself conned into becoming Lindon's flunky before gradually acquiring a taste for the hunt himself that threatens to overshadow his reluctant teacher. Naturally moral lessons are learned by the time the end credits roll and it's better on the various tricks the trade – tip-offs, set-ups, cons, bribes and the odd bit of complicity with their more publicity-hungry prey – than it is at providing laughs, but it's an entertaining odd couple comedy which has enough good moments to pass muster. Of the supporting cast only Catherine Frot and Nathalie Baye have much to do while of the many cameos from local celebrities, only Isabelle Adjani and Johnny Hallyday will be remotely familiar to non-French audiences, though Patrick Bruel does give a brief master class in how to deal with a fledgling paparazzi. There's no real reason to watch it, but it passes the time more than pleasantly enough if you do.

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