Jolie Jolie: Do you love Jacques Demy and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort? This musical comedy with Clara Lucian will enchant you!

An eclectic actor

From Paris to Rome in the 1970s, the fate of a broke writer collides with that of a rising movie star. Their path to love will be littered with pitfalls, misunderstandings and twists.

Jolie Jolie’s two passionate lovers are brilliantly played by William Lebgill (Le Sens de la fête, Hippocrates – Season 3) and singer-songwriter Clara Lucian (Miss). An impressive cast surrounds them: José Garcia (Nous, les Leroys), Laura Phelpin (Le Flambeau, les aventuriers de Chupacabra, L’Esprit Coubertin), Grégoire Ludig (handkerchiefs), Vincent Dedien (Les Pistolets en plastic), Victor Belmont. (Live, Die, Be Born Again) and Thomas VDB (An Affair of Principle).

Pop and modern songs…

To write this script, director Diastème (Un Français, Le Monde d’hier) collaborated with singer-songwriter Alex Beaupain, winner of the César Award for Best Original Score in 2008 for The Love Songs of Christophe Honored.

“I imagined the story, Alex did ping-pong and started singing songs, everything was created a little like that. And we found ourselves, a few months later, with a singing filmThe filmmaker explains simply. The operetta is the ancestor of the musical comedy, and we wrote it according to the rules of the art, that is, a period, in four acts, a love story thwarted, with an obstacle, a misunderstanding or a twist. Act and happy ending. We didn’t want to make a pastiche, on the contrary, we told ourselves that we should treat it seriously, with respect for the codes, with sincerity – and then, above all, have fun.”

A musical comedy written by four hands, Jolly Jolly is performed with pop and contemporary songs reminiscent of the tunes of Michel Legrand and occasionally Françoise Hardy. With a colorful and vintage aesthetic, the echoes of Jacques Demy and his Demoiselle de Rochefort are just as obvious.

…on the rhythm of love!

Jolly Jolly is primarily a romantic comedy. “Twice now I hear: “This is a movie that makes you fall in love– says Diastema. I will not hide that it is a pleasure. I have already made films about hate and death, so to make films about love, life is very nice.”

Together with Alex Beaupain, they wanted to shoot a film whose goal was to make the audience happy. And it succeeds: with its snowy setting and its charming characters covered in snowflakes, Jolly Jolly is the perfect mix of good humor, humor and love to watch alone or with the family during the last holidays of the year.

To warm your heart this Christmas, immerse yourself in the musical and romantic world of Jolly Jolly, now in theatres.