Les Beaux gosses/My best friends: two comedies about friendship not to be missed

Gulli is planning a special evening for friends with two French classics released in cinemas in 2009 and 1989.

In the spring of 1989, Jean-Marie Poiré, with the success of Santa Claus is trash or Grandpa resistsbrought together Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jean-Pierre Darroussin for a heartfelt comedy about friendship, My best friends. If it was a flop upon its release, the film quickly made up for it thanks to its multiple television broadcasts, becoming cult over the years.

20 years later, Riad Sattouf in turn filmed a story about friends, but from another generation, by adapting his comic book The secret lives of young people. For once, The Beautiful Kids recorded great success (900,000 admissions in France), in addition to receiving enthusiastic reviews. And it too has been broadcast multiple times since its cinema release, attracting viewers in large numbers.

Gulli, the channel dedicated to children’s programs, will broadcast these two films this evening, but in order: first the comedy with Vincent Lacoste at 9:05 p.m., then its eldest at 10:45 p.m. A program not to be missed, even if it is not particularly childish!

In 2009, Christophe Narbonne had a good laugh in front of The Beautiful Kids. Here is the review of First :

“If The Beautiful Kids looks a lot likeAmerican Pie made in France, it is above all a very personal film which combines various influences: Larry Clark (Kids) for the naturalist and raw side, Patrick Schulmann (PROFES) for the assumed French heritage, the comics Icy Fluid for the punk and regressive spirit. All the more twisting as it is hardly a caricature, The Beautiful Kids implicitly paints a terrible portrait of adolescence, this age where hormonal impulses collide with the limits of an often unrewarding physique and a crumbly mind. Behind his apparent nonchalance, the weak Hervé endures both his first name and an intrusive mother (Noémie Lvovsky, definitely cut out for comedy) who asks him every day if he has had a good jerk off! Already cult.”

And its trailer:

In 2019, as we celebrate 30 years of My best friends, Thomas Baura looked back on his special welcome. First ignored, then mocked for its not always fitting staging, the film finally conquered an entire generationn over time. Here is an excerpt from his review:

“No one realized that the supposed casualness of the whole was in reality one with characters incapable of finding their place and that the apparent relaxation masked the anguish of a generation of adults who, on the threshold of 90s, sensed a possible backlash.

On the screen, the characters cannot hold still, constantly expressing their discomfort, stumbling against a constantly fragmented space. Richard, Jean-Michel, Éric and Antoine get up, sit down again, climb the stairs four at a time, undertake a bicycle raid in the middle of the night, emitting a bizarre and devastating energy. The inevitably idealized flashbacks contrast with a present with devitalized colors.

At this end of roaring eighties, Poiré and Clavier do not question their class privilege, do not mourn a cool past, they simply deplore the sluggishness of a present without breath or vigor. None of the protagonists in this story have the function of redeeming the others. Melancholy seems to prohibit adjustments and mood swings. Only Antoine (Khorsand), the theatrical who has not renounced his ideals, expresses his doubts loud and clear, but finds no attentive ear among his “best friends”. So we can remove the umbrella and let the downpour drip down the beautiful suits of this Friends first French.”

The trailer for My Best Friends :

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