1 million entries: What if Cocorico has a connection with Les Visiteurs?

What is it about? About to get married, Alice and Francois decide to unite their two families. For this occasion, they have an original gift for parents: DNA tests so that everyone can discover the origin of their ancestors. But the surprise turns into a fiasco when the large aristocratic family the Bouvier-Sauvages and the much more humble Martins discover the results are, to say the least… unexpected!

2 monuments of French comedy!

At several points in Cocorico, Christian Clavier mentions “Louis VI le Gros”, especially when he claims to have been in France after the reign of Louis VI of France, known as “le Gros” (who was King of the Franks from 30 July). from 1108 to August 1, 1137). It could be the cult comedy Les Visiteurs, in which the actor played the funny Jacquiel La Freepouil.

In Jean-Marie Poirier’s 1993 film, Louis VI Le Gros is played by Didier Payne. It is she who Count Montmireil (Jean Reno) saved against the English, decides to give her the hand of Frenegonde (Valerie Lemercier).

And for the anecdote, Les Visiteurs was originally to be called “Les Explorateurs de Louis VI Le Gros,” with Didier Paine as Godfroy and Jacqueline Maillan as Frénégonde/Béatrice. In the end, producer Alain Terzian chose to assemble the Operation Corned-Beef trio of Jean Reno, Christian Clavier and Valérie Lemercier.

Cocorico may also include another reference to one of the monuments of French comedy: The Three Brothers (1995). This wink would be at poster level. Julien Hervé’s film shows the main characters (Christian Clavier, Marianne Denicur, Didier Bourdon and Sylvie Testud) staring in amazement at their DNA results.

The poster for the feature film Les Inconnus also features Dide Bourdon, Bernard Campagne and Pascal Legitimus, completely stunned in front of a newspaper that mentions “The Three Brothers” in white capital letters on a red background. .

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First solo film

Cocorico is Julien Herve’s first solo feature film. He directed Le Doudou with Philippe Mechelen in 2017 and is the screenwriter of the successful comedies Les Tuche 2, 3 and 4. “We’ve been working with Philip for decades, and I think it’s a natural evolution: we first did things together, before that we wanted to try solo adventures. The idea for the DNA test came from a friend who told me he could do it. It’s a good subject for comedy. From there I followed my intuition , a path that I had in mind, that seemed clear to me, and that I was almost obsessed with.– says the director.

famous castle

Two castle residences were used to serve as the setting, one for the interior and the other for the exterior. First of all, it is the castle of the writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne, located in the Dordogne village of Saint-Michel de Montaigne. The director describes it: “It is a very beautiful castle, very original: the walls of the rooms are painted in sienna color, which is quite rare in such a place. It is also a castle that is rarely shown in the cinema, because “it is a private place. in which the grandmother of the family lived until recently.”

As for the exterior, this is Chateau de La Rivière. A place which Julien Hervé describes as “Magnificent, surrounded by vines, another important theme because Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage has always produced great wines. It also tells us about a corner of France that is linked to culture, to our history.”

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like a fish out of water

The director returns to the comic spring on which Carikoko is based: “It’s a fish-out-of-aquarium principle that we also find in Les Touches, even if they don’t suffer from it! What I’m interested in from the beginning is to tell the characters: You’re not what you think. I then see their reaction by pushing the line a little bit by choosing characters , who were completely opposite at first!”

A unique duo in French cinema

Kokoriko reunites Christian Clavier and Didier Bourdon for the first time in the cinema. The two actors have already played opposite each other in La Cage aux Folles. If the director had Bourdon in mind when writing the script, reading the clavier was not an obvious choice for him. “Probably because I didn’t allow myself to…”

An impressive experience for Julien Hervé: “Suddenly you feel the pressure on your shoulders with the idea of ​​directing this tandem. It’s my first film on my own, it’s almost scary! But they’re two professionals and they didn’t let me, never make you feel that way. On the set. But I admit that in my head I was a bit like strangers in the face of brilliance and that Not small!