Call My Agent! The Movie: Why This Much-Loved French TV Series Fails as a Film
The film compresses the series’ ensemble banter into one fragile-star storyline, with a wild boar and storm overwhelming the production.
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What was supposed to be a fond reunion instead becomes a sad reminder of how wrong things can go when a beloved TV series gets a spin-off as a feature film. Despite Camille Cottin, some funny winks and the return of screenwriter Fanny Herrero, everything that once made the witty and warm "Call my agent!" series irresistible is missing.
The show runner of the series "Ten percent", adapted in film, spreads in the team work and has been able to convince up to Hollywood.
Call My Agent! The Movie: why this much-loved French TV series fails as a film
Full disclosure: I have been a fan of Call My Agent! since 2015, when I saw the first two episodes at a small festival in Brides-les-bains, a spa town in the French Alps. The event was organised by agent-turned-producer Dominique Besnehard, who was showing the episodes ahead of their first airing on French TV. Having spent eight years getting the project off the ground, Besnehard was anxious to know whether French audiences would like it. They d…
After 5 years from the end of the series, Call my agent! back as movie, on the contrary, Netflix movie in deluxe film packaging. Andréa, Gabriel and the employees of the show agency ASK no longer work together: some friendships have stopped but the nostalgia [...] The article "Call me my agent!" becomes a movie but is not up to the series seems to be the first on iO Donna.
Toulon screenwriter Fanny Herrero, creator of the hit series "Ten percent" finds her baby for a film, available on Netflix this Thursday, September 10, where she staged the entire casting of the series - stopped in 2020 - for a successful feature film.
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