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La Chèvre
1981 French film
La Chèvre (English title: Knock on Wood, literal translation: The She-goat) is a 1981 buddy copcomedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu. It is the first of three films featuring Richard and Depardieu as a comic duo. It’s an international co-production film between France and Mexico.
An American remake of this film was made in 1991, starring Martin Short and Danny Glover, entitled Pure Luck.
Plot
[edit]Marie Bens, the daughter of a CEO of a large company, is kidnapped while on vacation in Acapulco. The police investigation yields no results, so her father hires Campana (Gérard Depardieu), an imposing private detective specializing in disappearances, who spends a month in Mexico without finding a single lead. Desperate, Mr. Bens finally listens to a rather original idea from Meyer, the company psychologist. According to him, Campana is too "normal" to find Marie. The only way to succeed would be to send someone who shares her most notable trait: incredible bad luck. Meyer has identified the perfect candidate: François Perrin (Pierre Richard), an accountant whose life has been an endless series of mishaps. To illustrate his point, the psychologist conducts an impromptu test: h
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
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Biography: life and films
At the time of writing (August 2019), Gérard Depardieu's film and television credits number over 230, a remarkable tally for any actor and one that is virtually unrivalled for such a high profile and successful performer. Within a few years of his first big break in the mid-1970s, still in his twenties, Depardieu became the most popular, the most famous and most highly remunerated French actor of his time. In the 1980s, when France came perilously close to losing its film industry altogether, he was one of the two big hitters (the other being Catherine Deneuve) who helped French cinema through a rocky patch by raising its international profile. For two whole decades, Gérard Depardieu was the charismatic Gallic superstar that French film aficionados around the world would flock to see in their millions, whilst at home he was a living legend, energising both the commercial and auteur sectors of French cinema whilst somehow finding the time to indulge in his other two passions, gastronomy and winegrowing.Gérard Depardieu is a man of the wildest contradictions. His irresistible animal magnetism and bear-like physique suggest a ladykiller of dangerously unpredictable power, but there is also an intensely engaging gentleness to his persona that sugge