Released in our cinemas on April 16, 2014, Philippe de Cheuvron’s comedy What shall we do with the good Lord? Celebrating 10 years anniversary! And for the occasion, the film returns to theaters on April 14 for one day.
A surprise success in 2014, the comedy won the prize for best screenplay from the Lumières de la presse Foreigne in 2015, bringing more than 12 million viewers to French cinemas and is the seventh most watched French film of all time. The first was Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis and its 20 million viewers).
In the feature film, Christian Clavier plays Claude Verno, and Chantal Laub plays his wife Marie. Coming from a provincial Catholic upper middle class, their parents are quite “Old France”. But they always forced themselves to be open-minded… However, it was a very hard pill to swallow when their first daughter (Frederick Bell) married a Muslim (Maddie Sadoon), the second (Julia Piaton) a Jew (Ari Abitani). ) and their third (Émilie Caen) Chinese (Frédéric Chau). Their hopes of eventually seeing one of them get married in the church therefore focus on the youngest (Elodi Fontane), who, hallelujah, has just met a good Catholic (Nom Diawara).
This comedy had two sequels: What shall we do with the good Lord? Released in 2017 and bringing 6.4 million viewers to the theaters, what are we all supposed to do with the good Lord? It was released in 2022, in the post-Covid pandemic and was seen by 2.4 million viewers in cinemas.
It is the third most watched feature film in the prolific Christian Clavier’s filmography after Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and Visitors.
What should we do with the good Lord? It will be released in theaters only on April 14.
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