La Dame de chez Maxim

A stage performance of the tragicomedy broadcasted live in theaters.

Bruno and Florence invited Sophie and Alex for the evening, but nothing goes as planned between the successful author, the brilliant entrepreneur and their respective wives, two sisters. Contradictions, anxieties, bad faith and pettiness come around the table. A delightful cascade of incidents quickly transforms the family reunion into a crazy night where secrets, bottles and unsaid are shattered until the two couples, caught in an irresistible whirlwind, formulate the most unexpected.

A sweltering July evening on a Manhattan balcony. A cast-iron flowerpot shatters the chair Richard Sherman had been sitting in just seconds before. His upstairs neighbor has accidentally knocked over her tomato plant. This incident, which could have been fatal for Richard, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to him.

Liz and Hugh Preston have been living a life of perfect harmony for fifteen years — what one commonly calls “happiness.” But this peaceful bliss has gradually led to a certain boredom, prompting one of the spouses to cheat on the other — what one frankly calls “adultery.” But who, in fact, is responsible for this minor disaster? Hugh claims it’s Liz. His wife, on the other hand, has good reason to believe it’s her husband who strayed. Fortunately, Hugh will find a way to defend his love and save their marriage. He’ll use a tactic that seems absurd at first, but ultimately proves effective…

Le Temps des cerises is a sentimental comedy, full of charm, on the life of two beings whom everything opposes, but which chance brings together. He is a painter and out of inspiration. She is young, pretty, full of life, not very sure of herself. They have nothing in common except their humor, their charm, their need to create and their passion for painting. They will live a few days together and both will emerge transformed from this parenthesis.

After 18 years in prison, André returns home wearing an electronic ankle bracelet. His return is not greeted with enthusiasm, far from it! His wife can't stand his presence, his mother-in-law is intrusive, and his 20-year-old daughter, whom he didn't see grow up, refuses to call him dad. Recorded at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris's 9th arrondissement.

The Berger family lives on the sixth and top floor of a Parisian building. They feel so good there that they would like to expand their space and dream of taking over the very nice apartment of the Tissandier family, their friendly neighbors on the fifth floor, in order to create a lovely duplex that matches their ambitions. However, the Tissandier family is happy in their apartment and has no intention of moving at all. What can the Berger family do then? They are left with only one solution: to use all possible means to achieve their goals, even the most questionable and especially the most unlikely...

Lily DaCosta is a Hollywood movie star of the 1930s. Capricious and unbearable, she leads a scandalous life and makes life hell for everyone around her. Then along comes Deborah, her twin sister, a puritanical and shy farmer. The two sisters look so alike that when they swap lives, they lead a crooked journalist, a husband in need of money, greedy servants, and an ex-husband who has escaped from Alcatraz into a whirlwind of hilarious misunderstandings. Created for the stage in 1985 by Jacqueline Maillan, Lily & Lily has become a legend of boulevard theater.

François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.

Filmed 5 and 6 November 2020. Argan, suffering from hypochondria, decides to marry his daughter to a young doctor... The troupe of the Comédie-Française, led by Guillaume Gallienne and Bruno Podalydès, excels in this comedy-ballet, which is both a satirical farce and a reflection on death. The direction by Claude Stratz and the original music by Marc-Olivier Dupin breathe new life into this classic by Molière.