This is one of the favorite films of the French! Between his absurd humor, his crazy casting and his replicas that hit the bull's eye, he has crossed several generations. Quickly, he soon left the catalog of Prime Video.
We can say that a film is anchored in popular culture when it goes beyond the framework of cinema and that its replicas are part of our daily life. A bit like those of the City of Fear, one of the favorite comedies of the French.
Start in mimes! “,” We can deceive a person 1000 times … “,” When I'm happy I vomited! “,” You bluff, Martoni “ or again “Just a finger!“… If you know these replicas by heart, it is probably because you have seen and revised the film of the Dummies. Chantal Lauby, Dominique Farrugia, Alain Chabat and Gérard Darmon delight us with sequences as improbable as funny.
Let's not even talk about the famous scene of Cariocainterpreted brilliantly by Alain Chabat and Gérard Darmon, whom you probably kicked out in your living room one day. The two actors were inspired by the eponymous song from the film The Carioca released in 1933 – on which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb90-afkhw
So how can we explain this success when it was released, and thirty years later? More than 2 million spectators went to dark rooms to discover the comedy of Dummies. Today, the City of Fear continues to be broadcast on television or be seen on streaming platforms. Noted 4 out of 5 on Allociné, he returned to history with a large H.
“It was really a film of moviegoers but without taking itself seriously, without the chic of the word” film buff “will describe it Charles Gassot in an interview with Telerama in 2019. “The City of Fear has become a cult film because it was anti-everything: traditional anti-comedy, anti-parents, anti-society, anti-films of dummies, even “continued Gassot, still for the magazine.
“But he was also generous, family, anti-he! Totally wacky. It is an unparalleled film. Dummies invented a new box in comedy.”
If you are one of those who have never seen the city of fear, you have a few days left to catch it since it leaves the Prime Video catalog on June 30.
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