With the upcoming release of Cédric Jiménez’s thriller November in theaters and the feature film The Return of Hero on Prime Video, take a look at 5 unexpected Jean Dujardin roles you’ll find yourself revisiting on the platform.
return of the hero
1812. Captain Neville, a promising young girl from a good family, is mobilized to the front line of the Napoleonic wars. Although everyone believes him to be dead, he pretends to be a war hero with the complicity of Elizabeth, his fiancée’s sister, played by Melanie Laurent.
Between the ultra-effective situational comedy and the wonderfully deliberate comedy of the character, Jean Dujardin perfectly portrays this pathetic and mythomaniac liar who will sooner or later be caught in his lies. For the second time under the direction of Laurent Thirard, the actor injects a certain evilness into his acting, reminiscent of his indomitable Hubert in OSS 117.
Find Return of the Hero on Prime Video.
Boy girl
From 1999 to 2003, the daily life of the French was accompanied by the appearance of Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamm in the series, which has now become a cult: Boy, Girl. Between tenderness and raw love, the sequence of sketches depicting the life of a couple is an immediate success with the public.
And for all those nostalgic for the fun and exciting escapades of Chouchou and Loulou, the full 438 episodes can be rediscovered on Prime Video. A nice dose of nostalgia!
Watch One Guy, One Girl on Prime Video.
counter investigation
From the mid-2000s, Jean Dujardin began to expand his acting palette and was distinguished by more serious and dark roles than before. Frank Mancuso, an ex-policeman already recognized for the feature film 36 quai des Orfèvres, cast him in 2007 in the lead role of the effective and well-crafted thriller Counter-Inquiry.
In this film, we find the actor as a police captain confronting a man whom everything points to as his daughter’s killer. Convinced that his colleagues have completed the investigation too quickly, the captain begins a parallel investigation… from which he will not emerge unscathed.
Watch the cross-examination on Prime Video.
the french
Jean Dujardin will film for the first time under the direction of Cédric Jiménez in La Française, 8 years old, before finding him again in November to discover in cinemas on October 5. In this thriller, he responds to Gilles Lelouch, Céline Salet and Benoit Magimel, who digs into the investigator’s skin with an iron fist.
The film presents Marseille in the 70s, the true story of the dismantling of the French Union and its heroin trafficking. The high point was the face-off between Judge Michel and Godfather Gatan Zampa, a constant escalation of tension.
Find La French on Prime Video.
man in height
Finally, in 2016, Jean Dujardin portrays a great (or little?) romantic, Virgin in a duet with Efira. In “Man of Height” he is a charmer who has everything to like, whose only fault is his height of 1m36. For this role, he goes through real contractions on screen, bluffing, even destabilizing the audience.
Beyond the technical skills of shrinking an actor by almost 50 centimeters, Laurent Thiard (Le Petit Nicolas, Asterix and Obelix: In Service of the Madness) is primed to check out director Jean Dujardin’s sweet romance. video.
Find Men to Height on Prime Video.
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