On TV Tonight: Jonathan Cohen as a cocaine-addicted rabbi in a hilarious comedy

On TV Tonight: Jonathan Cohen as a cocaine-addicted rabbi in a hilarious comedy



Living together, but in music

With his third comedy feature film, CoexistFabrice Éboué continues in the vein he likes: tackling reality and social facts with provocative humor. After racism and corruption Start of the box AND The Botswanga Crocodileare the three monotheistic religions that he tackles in 2017, writing and staging the adventures of a musical group composed of a rabbi, a priest and an imam.

Nicolas Lejeune (Félix Éboué) is a music producer whose career and family life are in trouble. Sophie Demanche (Mathilde Seigner), head of the large group that includes his small label, challenges him to fill the Olympia with a new project in six months. With their backs against the wall, Nicolas and his assistant Sabrina (Audrey Lamy) will form a seemingly ecumenical musical group, composed of a priest (Guillaume de Tonquédec), a rabbi (Jonathan Cohen) and an imam (Ramzy Bedia) to sing about diversity and coexistence. However, the members of the group will have some difficulties in finding an agreement…

Coexist
Coexist ©EuropaCorp

Jonathan Cohen goes wild

Coexist convinced critics and audiences when it was released in theaters in 2017. Full of bad humor, very careful in the writing of its three characters that make up the group to extract all the comedy and burlesque possible, Fabrice Éboué’s film is incisive and funny enough to attract close 650,000 spectators.

Every situation of Coexist ready to laugh, and different final lines stay in command for a long time. But a special mention goes to Jonathan Cohen, hilarious depressed rabbi who turns into a stage beast once under the influence of cocaine. In his exchanges with his partners Guillaume de Tonquédec and Ramzy Bedia, he captures all the light. He then made his first great comic performance on the big screen, after having imposed himself on the general public since 2015 with the web series Blockedwhere he was located Serge the myth.

Source: Cine Serie

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