He had taken on the crazy challenge of seeing the beginning of King Arthur’s adventures two hundred times. The director had promised to accompany him to the cinema. On Wednesday September 15, he kept his word. An absurd challenge, a world record about to be broken, and at the end of it, a beautiful story. […]
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Kaamelott: Alexandre Astier wants to be inspired by George Lucas for his second film
Building on his success in theaters, the Lyon director said he felt very close to the daring creative approach adopted by the American filmmaker on his films. Star Wars. Surprise should be the key word. Passing Monday on TMC in the show Day-to-day of Yann Barthès, Alexandre Astier gave some first clues on what the […]
Kaamelott, burlesque and melancholy resurrection of the Arthurian legend
DECRYPTION – After ten years of preparation, Alexandre Astier delivers the first big spectacle part of a trilogy which crowns a work initiated in 2002 which brilliantly mixes drama and comedy while refusing to stick to the shift and parody. It was still a misunderstanding. Like the traveler without luggage, he had finally found it, […]
With the first part of Kaamelott, Alexandre Astier releases the most anticipated film of the year
After having repeatedly postponed its theatrical release, the medieval-burlesque comedy inspired by its successful series finally arrives on screens this Wednesday, July 21. On October 31, 2009, Alexandre Astier concluded the final episode of his series Kaamelott with a promise: “Soon Arthur will be a hero again.More than a decade later, that day has arrived. […]
Kaamelott: a crazy and jovial Middle Ages
CRITICAL – Director Alexandre Astier goes from the small to the big screen without giving up his schoolboy humor. Since 2005 and the broadcast on M6 of the first episode of Kaamelott, series in the format of burlesque pastilles of three to four minutes (following Cafe Camera), Alexandre Astier is expected around the corner by […]
Alexandre Astier: “I’m not a fan of Kaamelott, I don’t even know if I like”
The director, in promotion for the release of the first film of the saga, gave some clues about the continuation of the Arthurian adventures. Kaamelott: First Stream barely leaves the cinema that we already know a little more about the second episode of the trilogy. On the occasion of the theatrical release of his film, […]
Kaamelott succeeds in his passage to the cinema with this first part “epic, crazy and hilarious”
NEWSPAPER – If some regret that the long-awaited film by Alexandre Astier is aimed especially at fans of the series, the sharp dialogues and unbridled comedy hit the mark in the start of this Arthurian trilogy on the big screen. Twelve years after the end of the television series and after multiple postponements, the first […]
Kaamelott, Sweet Thing, Old, Space Jam … The movies to see or avoid this week at the cinema
The adaptation of the medieval burlesque series, a father filming his children with love and LeBron James in an animated film … What should we see this week? The editorial selection of the Figaro. To have Kaamelott , a comedy by Alexandre Astier, 2h Arthur Pendragon has been missing for ten years. He is no […]
A petition for Thomas Pesquet to watch Kaamelott on board the ISS
A big fan, the Norman astronaut took care to take all the episodes of the series in his suitcase, but he will not be able to attend the release of the film scheduled for this summer. Thomas Pesquet is a big fan of the medieval-comic fresco by Alexandre Astier. Having gone on a mission aboard […]
Kaamelott: Premier Volet will hit theaters on July 21, 2021 nine months late
Postponed due to the pandemic, the film from the Alexandre Astier series should find its audience this summer, if theaters reopen by then. A little hope for the fans of Alexandre Astier. The first opus of the trilogy Kaamelott will finally be released in theaters on July 21, 2020. Société nouvelle de distribution (SND), a […]