📝 Plot: Two incompetent and rival policemen are forced to work together on a high-profile case. As chaos, misunderstandings, and absurd situations pile up, their clashing personalities turn every mission into a disaster. This energetic buddy comedy blends slapstick humor with satire of law enforcement, delivering a fast-paced and wildly unpredictable ride.

#ProtégerEtServir2010 #Comedy #FrenchCinema #BuddyComedy #PoliceComedy #AbsurdHumor #Slapstick #CharacterDriven

La Fée, Abel & Gordon et Bruno Romy (2011)

Le dernier #film qu'il me restait à voir de ce duo canado-belge, découvert en 2019 en rattrapant Paris Pieds Nus, puis en voyant L'Étoile Filante en salle en 2024, puis en rattrapant les autres depuis septembre.

Quel mélange d'hilarant #burlesque, de parenthèses dansées, de poésie visuelle.

Capture chinée sur le site de la Quinzaine des Cinéastes : https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/index.php/fr/film/la-fee

#movie #cinema #cinemastodon #comedie #comedy #slapstick #danse #dance

Astérix & Obélix: Mission Potager (Mission Veggie Garden) (2025) [4 min] by Piano, Julien Daubas and Fabien Limousin | #France

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

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Asterix #Garden #WildBoar #Goose #Slapstick #Xilam #Comedy

Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)

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Mr Hulot and three women enjoy an outdoor lunch in Villa Arpel's concrete backyard. A woman in furs laughs heartily, head thrown back, with Hulot looking into her open mouth, halting a woman reaching for a carafe mid-movement. The third woman, in an avant-garde Eastmancolor-red poncho, calmly smokes through her cigarette holder. DP: Jean Bourgoin.

#FilmDinner #JacquesTati #JeanPierreZola #AdrienneServantie #LucienFrégis #BettySchneider #FranckBarcellini #AlainRomans #NorbertGlanzberg #JeanBourgoin #absurdism #comedy #satire #slapstick #France #Italy #1950s ★★★★☆ ♥︎

“Mr. Hackett turned the corner and saw, in the failing light, at some distance, his seat”*…

Michael Wolf is an award-winning and widely-exhibited photographer famous for his documentation of big city architecture and life around the world, but especially in Hong Kong… Consider this series…

Much more at “Informal Seating Arrangements in Hong Kong” and more of Wolf’s other wonderful work on his site.

* Samuel Beckett, Watt

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As we grab a chair, we might keep our focus on Hong Kong: it was on this date in 1978 that Snake in Eagle’s Shadow was released. A  Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film, it was the debut of director  Yuen Woo-ping, and the breakthrough outing for its stars,  Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee, and (Yuen Woo-ping’s real life father) Yuen Siu-tien.

The film is the story of Chien Fu (Jackie Chan), an orphan who is bullied at a kung fu school, but meets an old beggar, Pai Cheng-tien (Yuen Siu-tien), who becomes his sifu (teacher) and trains him in Snake Kung Fu. The film established Chan’s slapstick kung fu comedy style– which he further developed with Drunken Master, also directed by Yuen Woo-ping, released in the same year, and also starring Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee and Yuen Siu-tien. Snake in Eagle’s Shadow (and Drunken Master) established the basic plot structure used in many, many martial arts films internationally since then.

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