Tonight on TV: Rated 1 out of 5 This is one of the worst films in French cinema, but wouldn’t it be charitable to give it a second chance?

Everyone knows Les Visiteurs, the cult comedy directed by Christian Clavier and Jean Reno. The monument to French laughter is flourishing with cult copies, which ran to almost 14 million viewers in theaters. Everyone also knows the sequel, Corridors of Time, which has also been praised by the community with more than 8 million entries.

But have you heard of the movie that will bring Jacqueline La Fripuy and the Count of Montmireil to the United States? A film not at all well-regarded by AlloCiné audiences that may be given a second chance tonight at TFX!

The 2001 feature film Visitors in America, again supported by Clavier and Renault, is the American adaptation of Visitors. In emigration to the United States, the heroes changed their surnames, Jacqueil became Andre Le Pate, and Count Godfroi de Montmireil was now baptized Count Thibault de Malfette.

If Jean-Marie Poiret, the director of the first two films, returns behind the camera for this American version, we will notice the presence of Chris Columbus in the script, to whom we owe Maman, j’ai missed l’avion, Madame Doubtfire and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Also note the inclusion of Malcolm McDowell, the hero of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and a young Tara Reid in the casting revealed by the American Pie saga.

For guests in America, Christian Klavier had to learn English seriously. “I relied on the advice of my coach, Mrs. Cleary, a remarkable woman who already cared. Juliette Binoche with the success we know”declares Jacquiville’s interpreter. “We worked a lot together. But when I found myself on the first day having to start in the middle of a team of two hundred people who didn’t know me in the slightest, I hadn’t seen Les Visiteurs and even less The Corridors. The timing was as exciting as it was terrifying. Extraordinary.”

“I had stage fright dictated by the desire to be sure”continues the actor. “I found myself in a vulnerability that I had forgotten, faced with a restorative fear. I had to learn to know others, to tame them. I felt like I was starting over, like at the beginning of The Splendid.”

tonight on TFX at 10:55 p.m.

False connection: errors and mistakes of “visitors”.