Six years after the final episode of the series on France 2, Dix pour cent returns to bid farewell in a film on Netflix. Good news: Andréa, Hervé and the entire ASK team still manage to make us laugh.
Of course we were looking forward to it when we learned that a Dix pour cent film was in the works at Netflix. The comeback proves perfectly effective, even though the series’ characters no longer work together at ASK. Once again written by Fanny Herrero, in collaboration with Lison Daniel, the clever screenplay allows them to reunite in a manner akin to the Avengers of French show business.
Many years have passed since the fall of ASK, and the former colleagues of Dix pour cent have gone their separate ways: Camille (Fanny Sidney) and Mathias (Thibault de Montalembert), father and daughter, have launched their own star agency and he is in a relationship with Noémie (Laure Calamy), who has become a popular television producer; Gabriel (Grégory Montel) has moved to the competition and continues his work as an agent at StarMédia; Hervé (Nicolas Maury) is now an actor with a faltering career; finally, Andréa (Camille Cottin) is about to direct her first film. But not everything will go as planned, and this is precisely what will push all our heroes to come together again.
Hervé and Andréa forever
If we move to a feature-length format, the recipe of the series remains on point: although some of the group are no longer agents, all must somehow deal with a gallery of film stars who portray an exaggerated or entirely distant version of themselves. The cast then includes Vincent Macaigne, Laetitia Casta, and Laurent Lafitte. They are joined by international names: Eva Longoria, who mocks her growing affection for France, and George Clooney, who unabashedly lampoons his own filmography in one of the film’s most hilarious scenes.
Between measured authenticity and a mastered deadpan, Dix pour cent, the film proves not only that the world of cinema remains an inexhaustible ground for humor, but also that its creator, Fanny Herrero, still knows her characters just as well, especially the queer ones. Our former cover boy Nicolas Maury remains our favorite, with a sense of comedy and unease that still hits the mark. As for our cover girl of the winter, Camille Cottin, she inherits the most intense storyline as professional and personal lives clash. Nothing has changed: Andréa Martel remains one of the most complex fictional lesbians on French television. And it’s good to have her back.
