Michaël Youn at the Alpe d’Huez Festival, January 17, 2020. – Laurent Vu / SIPA
Divorce club of
Michaël Youn won the Grand Prix of the 23rd edition of the Alpe d’Huez Comedy Festival on Saturday, according to a press release. This is his third production, with Arnaud Ducret, François-Xavier Demaison, Audrey Fleurot and Caroline Anglade. The film tells the story of Ben, a young divorcee, soon joined by other “quarantine revelers” in the “Divorce club”. Exit scheduled for March 25.
#DivorceClub, the new comedy by @MichaelYoun, wins 2 prizes at @Festivalpedhuez :
✨The Grand Prix
✨The Press PrizeThe film will be released in theaters on March 25 pic.twitter.com/Ff6IdT5C6C
– SND (@SNDfilms) January 18, 2020
The Audience Award went to Casually by Mathias Mlekuz. This social comedy, a first film, depicts Arnaud Ducret and Philippe Rebbot in the story of two unemployed people who are building an amusement park on an old coal mine. The special jury prize was won by Everything smiles on us by Mélissa Drigeard. Elsa Zylberstein won the prize for female interpretation and Stéphane de Groodt the prize for male interpretation.
Comedy remains one of the queen categories of the French box office. In 2019, the fourth biggest hit of the year was a hex comedy, What have we done to God again? by Philippe de Chauveron (6.7 million admissions).
Michaël Youn is also showing the Lucky, a comedy by Olivier Van Hoofstadt, the director of Dikkenek. The film, also screened at the Festival d’Alpe d’Huez, will hit theaters on February 26. This week, TF1 also indicated that the actor appeared in the casting of a mini-series on the Grégory affair.
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