Call My Agent Movie Review: French Comedy Gang Returns — SkimNews
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- "Call My Agent! The Movie" premieres on Netflix September 10, reuniting the cast of the hit French comedy series nearly six years after season 4 ended with the Paris-based Agence Samuel Kerry (ASK) folding in near-bankruptcy amid COVID-era uncertainty.
- Émilie Noblet directs the two-hour feature, scripted by showrunner Fanny Herrero with Lison Daniel, and shot in glossy widescreen by DP Aurélien Marra, an ASC winner a few years back for "Two of Us."
- Camille Cottin returns as Andréa Martel, now a writer-director attempting to mount her debut feature "The Fugitive," a gritty female survivalist revenge drama led by Laetitia Casta.
- Laure Calamy plays Noémie, now a TV producer who in a standout cringe-comedy scene inadvertently insults George Clooney by dissing his direction of the mediocre WWII romp "The Monuments Men."
- Eva Longoria, Laurent Lafitte, and Gérard Depardieu all figure into celebrity cameos skewering showbiz pretensions, with Depardieu catching "well-earned strays" and Noémie's attempt to recruit Longoria falling apart when the latter suggests recasting the survivalist drama as a Parisian wish-fulfillment romance.
- Variety praises the breathless cut-and-thrust dialogue and the passive-aggressive chemistry between Cottin and Calamy as "the stuff of sitcom perfection," though it notes the film assumes prior knowledge of the show's tangled character histories.
Why it matters: Longtime fans get a long-awaited ensemble reunion nearly six years after the series' destabilizing COVID-era finale, while Netflix plugs a prestige foreign-language comedy into its September slate with built-in marketing from A-list cameos including Clooney and Longoria — though Variety's review suggests newcomers may struggle to keep up without the show's back-catalogue context.
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