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Gad Elmaleh | ... |
Choukri, alias Chouchou
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Alain Chabat | ... |
Stanislas de la Tour-Maubourg
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Claude Brasseur | ... |
Père Léon
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Roschdy Zem | ... |
Frère Jean
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Catherine Frot | ... |
Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
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Julien Courbey | ... |
Yekea
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Arié Elmaleh | ... |
Vanessa
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Yacine Mesbah | ... |
Djamila
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Micheline Presle | ... |
La mère de Stanislas
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Jacques Sereys | ... |
Le père de Stanislas
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Michaël Youn | ... |
Le transformiste brésilien
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Stéphane Boucher | ... |
L'inspecteur Grégoire
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Olivia Dessolin | ... |
L'apparition
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Anne Marivin | ... |
La vendeuse supermarché
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Jean-Paul Comart | ... |
Le commissaire Molino
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Michel Such | ... |
Le patient
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François Berland | ... |
Le maire / Voix du soap-opera
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Fawzi B. Saichi | ... |
Le voiturier du salon de thé
(as Faouzi B Saïchi)
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Bruno Flender | ... |
Mitch le videur
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Messaoud Hattau | ... |
Le transformiste humoriste
(as Mess Hattou)
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Catherine Hosmalin | ... |
Madame Armand
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Maurice Lampel | ... |
Monsieur Catimini
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Jean-François Pages | ... |
Inspecteur Berthier
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Adrien Saint-Joré | ... |
Le jeune association
(as Adrien Saint-Jore)
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Isaac Sharry | ... |
Serveur salon de thé
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Aida Daghari | ... |
Karima
(as Aïda Daghari)
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Rochelle Redfield | ... |
La touriste américaine
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Axelle Laffont | ... |
Voix du soap-opera (voice)
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Nader Boussandel | ... |
Le chanteur (uncredited)
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Jean-Yves Freyburger | ... |
(uncredited)
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Aytl Jensen | ... |
Client de la boite de nuit (uncredited)
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Astou Vedel | ... |
Model on the bar (uncredited)
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Directed by
Merzak Allouache |
Written by
Merzak Allouache | ... | (writer) |
Gad Elmaleh | ... | (original stage sketch) |
Gad Elmaleh | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
Christian Fechner | ... | producer |
Jean-Louis Nieuwbourg | ... | line producer (as Jean Louis Nieuwbourg) |
Music by
Germinal Tenas | ||
Gilles Tinayre |
Cinematography by
Laurent Machuel |
Editing by
Sylvie Gadmer |
Editorial Department
Estelle Babut-Gay | ... | assistant editor |
Caroline Chatriot | ... | assistant editor |
Marjolaine Mispelaere | ... | color timer |
Rodolphe Risse | ... | assistant editor |
Gerard Savary | ... | color timer (as Gérard Savary) |
Casting By
Daniel Ben Loulou | ||
Sylvie Peyrucq |
Production Design by
Sylvie Deldon |
Art Direction by
Baba Coudanne | ||
Laurent Ott |
Costume Design by
Fabienne Katany | ||
Ricardo Martinez-Paz |
Makeup Department
Sophie Benaiche | ... | key makeup artist |
Charlotte Benamout | ... | makeup artist |
Véronique Delmestre | ... | makeup artist |
Yves Giorgi | ... | hair stylist |
Eric Monteil | ... | key hair stylist |
Nadine Otsobogo | ... | key makeup artist (as Nadine Boucher) |
Production Management
Catherine Adart | ... | post-production manager |
Xavier Champagnac | ... | unit manager |
Laurent Chiomento | ... | unit manager |
Jean-Claude Landon | ... | unit manager |
Sylvain Marques | ... | assistant unit manager |
Alain Mougenot | ... | unit manager |
Jean-Louis Nieuwbourg | ... | production manager (as Jean Louis Nieuwbourg) |
Eric Noël | ... | unit manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Véronique Labrid | ... | first assistant director |
Christophe Ronchet | ... | second assistant director |
Mathieu Vaillant | ... | second assistant director |
Art Department
Marie Breger | ... | painter |
Bruno Castejon | ... | construction crew |
Baba Coudanne | ... | set dresser |
Arthur Deleu | ... | property master |
Vincent Deslandes | ... | construction crew |
Thierry Doerflinger | ... | plasterer |
Thomas Godelle | ... | construction crew |
Fabienne Haertling | ... | construction crew |
Emmanuel Jaffre | ... | construction crew |
Laurent Micheletti | ... | construction crew |
Marie Predieri | ... | construction crew |
Bruno Via | ... | assistant art director |
Marie-Claire Vidal | ... | upholsterer |
Sound Department
Annabel Acquaviva | ... | boom operator |
Delphine Ameil | ... | boom operator |
Pascal Chauvin | ... | foley artist |
Catherine D'Hoir | ... | sound editor |
Eric Grattepain | ... | foley artist |
Paul Lainé | ... | sound |
Lionel Lebras | ... | boom operator |
Jacques Lévy | ... | post-synchronisation |
Françoise Maulny | ... | post-synchronisation (as Françoise Maulny-Lévy) |
Michel Monier | ... | sound consultant: Dolby |
Michel Morier | ... | sound |
Fabrice Naud | ... | sound editor |
Gréggory Poncelet | ... | sound recordist |
Gérard Rousseau | ... | sound |
Hervé Roux | ... | sound consultant: DTS |
Isabelle Tat | ... | post-synchronisation |
Soazic Veillon | ... | dialogue editor |
Nathalie Vidal | ... | sound mixer |
Visual Effects by
Fabien Coupez | ... | flame artist |
Frederic Moreau | ... | visual effects producer |
Stunts
Gilles Conseil | ... | stunts |
Philippe Guégan | ... | stunt coordinator |
Dusan Prvy | ... | stunts |
Martin 'Mato' Uhrovcik | ... | stunts |
Camera and Electrical Department
Matthieu Alquier | ... | grip |
Murat Babursah | ... | electrician |
Thomas Bataille | ... | assistant camera |
Mourad Bouhdiba | ... | grip |
Mathieu Caudroy | ... | steadicam operator |
Serge Dell'Amico | ... | assistant camera |
Nicolas Dixmier | ... | gaffer |
Stéphane Gallou | ... | grip |
Julie Gaujour | ... | video assist |
Olivier Georges | ... | grip |
Alexandre Gotkovski | ... | electrician |
Gaston Grandin | ... | key grip |
Marianne Lamour | ... | assistant camera |
Didier Larate | ... | electrician (as Didier Laratte) |
Lucas Leconte | ... | assistant camera |
Jean-Marie Leroy | ... | still photographer |
Frédéric Loustalot | ... | electrician |
Stephen Mack | ... | assistant camera |
Julien Marc | ... | grip |
Paul Mignot | ... | grip |
Morvan Omnes | ... | grip |
Didier Rollot | ... | electrician (as Didier Rolot) |
Jean-Baptiste Thibaud | ... | steadicam operator |
Casting Department
Daniel Ben Loulou | ... | extras casting |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Patrick Cavalié | ... | costumer |
Magali Cohen | ... | costumer |
Sandrine Douat | ... | assistant costume designer |
Isabelle Lelievre | ... | costumer (as Isabelle Le Lièvre) |
Anjali Lenglet | ... | costumer |
Tina Morel | ... | costumer |
Naco | ... | costumer |
Location Management
Alain Mougenot | ... | location manager |
Music Department
Philippe Chany | ... | composer: song "C'est la ouate" |
Anne-Olga De Pass | ... | orchestrator |
Veronique Duval | ... | copyist |
Muriel Moreno | ... | composer: song "L'amour à la plage" |
Stéphane Reichart | ... | music mixer |
Script and Continuity Department
Diane Brasseur | ... | trainee script supervisor |
Jennifer Gay | ... | script translator |
Lucie Truffaut | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
Anne-Sophie Aparis | ... | press attache |
Sophie Ba | ... | administrator |
Laure Blaess | ... | administrator |
Myriam Bruguière | ... | press attache |
Valéry Domont | ... | assistant post-production |
Alexandra Fechner | ... | production assistant |
Olivier Guigues | ... | press attache |
Eric Thurot | ... | groupman |
Johanne Toledano | ... | choreographer |
Thanks
Aytl Jensen | ... | special thanks |
Production Companies
Distributors
- California Home Vídeo (2005) (Brazil) (DVD) (VHS)
- Warner Bros. (France)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Airstar (electrical equipment)
- Anne-So Relations Media (press relation)
- Central Color (photo lab)
- Cinemontage (Avid editing)
- D.C. Audiovisuel (sound equipment)
- Eclair (film lab)
- J.L.E. Light (electrical equipment)
- Studio Guillaume Tell (music mixed at)
- Transpalux (electrical equipment)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Chouchou has just arrived in Paris from his home in North Africa. He is scatty and unworldly, and tries to get a bed for the night by spinning an implausible line about being a refugee from the Chilean dictator Pinochet. He is fortunate, because a kindly priest (Father Leon) in a working class suburb has some sympathy for him, and takes him in for a few nights. Father Leon also gets him a job with a lady psychoanalyst, Dr Milovavich, and the job is as receptionist and cleaner. Chouchou does the cleaning in a woman's dustcoat and when Dr Milovavich asks him what he would most like in the world, he replies that he would love to be a woman from head to toe. Dr M. is unabashed by this revelation, and tells him that from tomorrow he can come to work as a woman, Mlle Chouchou. He takes her at her word, and is startlingly convincing the next day, with good female body language, although let down by a marked dark beard shadow. Soon the doctor has to go away for a couple of days on business, and Chouchou is alone in the practice when an enraged client comes banging at the door; when he is let in, it turns out he is Inspector Gregoire of the police, having serious mental difficulties, due to the violent nature of his work. Chouchou has been reading the doctor's textbooks and tries a bit of amateur psychoanalysis but Gregoire becomes even angrier and storms out. When Chouchou leaves later on, Gregoire is waiting and Chouuchou only just escapes violence, ending up on the Metro and getting out at Clichy, the centre of the red light district in Paris. By coincidence Chouchou bumps into her cousin in the street, there. The cousin is male but is working at a bar called the Apocalypse, where he does an act as Vanessa. That night Chouchou goes with Vanessa to the bar; there are a couple of bouncers on the door, and as everyone kisses everyone else twice on each cheek, just getting past the door takes some time. There is also a customer (Stanislas de la Tour-Maubourg) hovering near the door, and he is evidently attracted to Chouchou. Chouchou starts work as a waitress in the club, and after some days, Stanislas comes in and approaches her. After some preliminaries, he takes her out for a meal, treating Chouchou as a girl. He is a perfect gentleman and very soon wants to take Chouchou to introduce her to his parents. Chouchou is a bit taken aback at this and consults Father Leon, but the kindly priest is not against it. So Chouchou goes with Stanislas to a seriously expensive hotel dining room where the parents are waiting to meet her. Stanislas has told his parents that Chouchou is herself a psychoanalyst, and Chouchou has to bluff her way out of it. Work at the club continues apace for Chouchou, but when she is back at the dcotor's consulting rooms, Gregoire turns up again, mad as ever. This time Doctor Milovavich is present; Gregoire is getting violent, so Chouchou knocks him out by hitting him with a large vase, that Milovavich told her earlier was of irreplaceable sentimental value. Chouchou now has to go on the run from Dr Milovavich because of the vase, and from Gregoire because of assaulting a policeman. Where and how will it all end? Written by Hazel Freeman |
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Taglines | Le rencontrer c'est l'aimer ! See more » |
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Box Office
Opening Weekend France | $5,801,572, 21 Mar 2003 |
Did You Know?
Movie Connections | References Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). See more » |
Soundtracks | C'est la ouate See more » |
Crazy Credits | Several deleted scenes are shown during the credits. See more » |