Lost in Frenchlation: French Fried Comedy with David Honnorat

2024-12-08

For this holiday episode we are delving into cinema history with renowned cinephile, David Honnorat, and talking all bout French comedy film. Our focus is Santa Claus is a Stinker (Le père Noël est une ordure) 1982, and French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzes go Skiing (Les Bronzés font du ski) 1979. Both Films are Screening at 8pm on December 10th 2024 at L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris. GET TICKETS HERE David is a renowned cinephile and video essayist. He runs a successful youtube channel called Calmos named after another film of the time by Bertra...

For this holiday episode we are delving into cinema history with renowned cinephile, David Honnorat, and talking all bout French comedy film. Our focus is Santa Claus is a Stinker (Le père Noël est une ordure) 1982, and French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzes go Skiing (Les Bronzés font du ski) 1979.

Both Films are Screening at 8pm on December 10th 2024 at L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris. GET TICKETS HERE

David is a renowned cinephile and video essayist. He runs a successful youtube channel called Calmos named after another film of the time by Bertrand Blier. He also wrote a movie guide and a Movieland map.

David unpacks the cultural influences that made this era of comedy so unique and gives us some background on the Parisian theater company (Le Splendid) that created the movement.

There are two of David’s videos with English subtitles on his channel Calmos

The essay on Kitchen with Apartment (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5aedz2iso

And OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fURk7ykLI

Show Hosts are ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean

Show Notes:

We love giving our audience a little homework. Here are David’s recommendations for getting started with French Comedy:

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)

Spy comedy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117:_Cairo,_Nest_of_Spies

La Grande Vadrouille (1966)