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To get 2023 off to a good start, the France.tv platform offers three very original feature films. Totally free, these visits are to be discovered as soon as possible to have a good time. With Starbuck and The Singing Club, 99 Franc is the latest to join the list and deserves some attention.
Sometimes typed 99 F, 99 Francs is a 2007 film directed by Jan Kounen. Octave Parango is a young copywriter working in one of the most important advertising agencies in Paris. Cynical, egotistical and egocentric, he is the archetype of the slap in the face (like some you may come across on the internet) and lives a life of debauchery, between cocaine, girls and money that flows in waves. Only by virtue of playing with people does the prospect take a fair boomerang in the face. When her romantic relationship falters, her professional life takes a negative turn. Completely beside himself, he decides to sabotage his biggest advertising campaign in order to get revenge on a self-created system.
A crazy film to see on France.tv
Qualified as an author’s film, 99 Francs is the cinematic adaptation of the book of the same name by Frédéric Beigbeder. A madcap portrait of the world of advertising and consumer society, the work of Jan Kounen (who knows what he’s talking about having worked in that environment) is a masterpiece of cynicism, and his closing message says it all about the world and what it is can inspire. 99 Francs, borne by Jean Dujardin at the helm, knows how to be disturbing and innovative, and has all the cinematographic UFOs capable of cleavage. Although the film is presented as a comedy, it is not actually a comedy. Sometimes poetic, sometimes trashy, the adaptation of Beigbeder’s book is as exciting and corrosive as possible.
The author was also asked to adapt his work himself, but contented himself with choosing the actors and the director. He also generated interest in the screenplay. At first it was the superb Édouard Baer who was cast to play the insufferable Octave Parango, but eventually Jean Dujardin persuaded the director.
I had seen him in Brice de Nice and thought he had an extraordinary ability to make an arrogant fool fall in love. However, it turns out that for 99 francs I had to make an intelligent, sensitive human being arrogant, and that’s after making him despicable first! As Octave says, “I hope you will hate me even more than you hate the era that created me. »
99 francs can be seen without further delay France.tv
