The makers of France’s international tv hit “Call My Agent” are turning their focus subsequent to the world of cabaret with “Ca, c’est Paris,” which guarantees to peek backstage of the quintessentially French world of frills, sequins and excessive kicks.
“Call My Agent,” which satirized the French leisure business, and the individuals whose dedicate their lives catering to the whims and egos of film stars, turn out to be a global hit on Netflix and drew cameos from the likes of Sigourney Weaver.
“Ca, c’est Paris” creator Marc Fitoussi hopes his new present can draw an identical international viewers, whereas busting a couple of stereotypes in regards to the “Moulin Rouge”-style reveals beloved by vacationers and popularized by Hollywood musicals.
“It has the same principle of going behind the scenes… taking an interest in the people in the shadows,” Fitoussi, in Los Angeles to current the sequence on the American French Film Festival (TAFFF), advised AFP.
“We wanted to tell the backstage story of a cabaret, to go against the cliches about the world of nightlife, drugs, girls who prostitute themselves,” added Michel Feller, a producer on “Ca, c’est Paris” who beforehand lent his personal experiences as an ex-agent to “Call My Agent.”
“That’s not the reality at all — it’s more about athletes and modern women, expressing themselves.”
Filmed at Paradis Latin, the oldest cabaret within the French capital, “Ca C’est Paris” begins with supervisor Gaspard dealing with a dilemma of whether or not to promote his struggling burlesque nightclub.
With his spouse and teenage daughter skeptical a couple of enterprise that “exhibits naked women on stage in the 21st century,” Gaspard hires a brand new, very avant-garde inventive director to modernize his institution.
His staff embody a Polish immigrant dancer whose dad and mom imagine she works on the Paris Opera, a waiter in search of a contemporary begin after a law-breaking youth, and a single mom from the suburbs juggling the stage and her son.
Through cabaret, the sequence captures “an X-ray of Paris, and even modern France,” mentioned Fitoussi.
Whether it might probably match the worldwide attraction of “Call My Agent,” which spawned a number of multinational diversifications together with a British model, stays to be seen.
The sequence debuts on French tv later this 12 months, with worldwide launch plans but to be confirmed.
But the brand new present’s makers hope to capitalize on the latest highlight offered by the Paris Olympics, the place Lady Gaga memorably paid tribute to French cabaret in a extensively acclaimed opening ceremony on the banks of the Seine.
“When we see Lady Gaga imitating Zizi Jeanmaire, it shows that this imagery is still popular today and can seduce the public,” mentioned Fitoussi.
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