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Call My Agent! Movie: All Stars, No Spark
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In Short: The movie adaptation of the popular French series 'Call My Agent!' reunites the cast but struggles to match the original's workplace comedy magic.
The movie follows Andréa (Camille Cottin), who is now a director, and her colleagues as they navigate their new roles. Mathias (Thibault de Montalembert) starts a new talent agency with his daughter, while Gabriel (Grégory Montel) joins a rival agency. Junior agent Hervé (Nicolas Maury) decides to pursue an acting career, and Noémie (Laure Calamy), Mathias' former assistant, becomes a producer. The movie also features appearances by George Clooney, Eva Longoria, Laetitia Casta, and Vincent Macaigne, among others.
Despite the star-studded cast, the movie struggles to find its footing. "While the delicate act of managing high-strung stars feels true to the original series, there is too much distance between the worlds of our agents (and former agents) to produce the same level of workplace comedy magic that made the show so successful," noted one critic. The movie's plot, which centers around a woman who escapes to the wilderness after killing her husband and falls in love with the detective tracking her down, adds an extra layer of complexity that detracts from the series' charm.
The movie's attempt to bridge the gap between the original series and the new film is evident in the return of the entire cast, including Camille Cottin, who plays Andréa, and Thibault de Montalembert, who reprises his role as Mathias. Fanny Sidney, who plays Camille, also takes on a new role as a successful agent. Despite the strong cast, the movie's narrative struggles to find its footing, leaving audiences with a sense of disappointment.
What's confirmed
- The movie follows Andréa (Camille Cottin), who is now a director, and her colleagues as they navigate their new roles. Mathias (Thibault de Montalembert) starts a new talent agency with his daughter, while Gabriel (Grégory Montel) joins a rival agency. Junior agent Hervé (Nicolas Maury) decides to pursue an acting career, and Noémie (Laure Calamy), Mathias' former assistant, becomes a producer. The movie also features appearances by George Clooney, Eva Longoria, Laetitia Casta, and Vincent Macaigne, among others.
- Despite the star-studded cast, the movie struggles to find its footing. "While the delicate act of managing high-strung stars feels true to the original series, there is too much distance between the worlds of our agents (and former agents) to produce the same level of workplace comedy magic that made the show so successful," noted one critic. The movie's plot, which centers around a woman who escapes to the wilderness after killing her husband and falls in love with the detective tracking her down, adds an extra layer of complexity that detracts from the series' charm.
- The movie's attempt to bridge the gap between the original series and the new film is evident in the return of the entire cast, including Camille Cottin, who plays Andréa, and Thibault de Montalembert, who reprises his role as Mathias. Fanny Sidney, who plays Camille, also takes on a new role as a successful agent. Despite the strong cast, the movie's narrative struggles to find its footing, leaving audiences with a sense of disappointment.
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- The Movie, in which she struggles to complete her debut feature film, the story of a woman who escapes to the wilderness after killing her husband, only to fall in love with the detective tracking her down. (Meanwhile, Arlette appears mostly in voiceover, as a kind of mentor/therapist for Andréa.) While it is heartwarming to see the gang back together, there is a lot of slog to get through in order to reunite them.
- Andréa’s future is left undecided, but it’s no surprise to find her working as a director in Call My Agent!
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- As she stars in both the coming-of-age comedy ‘Just an Illusion’ and the film version of the beloved ‘Call My Agent!’, she speaks to Adam White about being heckled in public, how motherhood can make adventure tricky, and why her remake of ‘Fleabag’ didn’t work C amille Cottin is teaching me to swear in French.
- But then Call My Agent! started being binged, and that encouraged the producers to think, OK – why did we end this?
- She’s been juggling promotion for three separate projects at once: a film adaptation of Les Misérables, a film version of Call My Agent! on Netflix, and a brilliant coming-of-age comedy called Just an Illusion that this week arrives in UK and Irish cinemas.