I Feel Good (film)

I Feel Good
I Feel Good
Directed by	Benoît Delépine; Gustave de Kervern
Written by	Benoît Delépine; Gustave de Kervern
Produced by	Benoît Delépine; Marc Dujardin; Gustave de Kervern
Starring	Jean Dujardin; Yolande Moreau
Cinematography	Hugues Poulain
Edited by	Stéphane Elmadjian
Music by	Hakim Amokrane; Mustapha Amokrane; Nicolas Liorit; Motivés; Ghislain Rivera
Production; companies	Arte; Wild Bunch; No Money Productions
Distributed by	Ad Vitam
Release dates	11 August 2018 (Locarno); 26 September 2018;
Countries	France; Belgium; Germany; USA
Language	French
Budget	$4.8 million
Box office	$4 million

I Feel Good is a 2018 French comedy satire of both capitalism and communism directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern.

Plot[edit]

Jacques, an ambitious man pushed from the home by his old parents, decides one fine day to become rich and famous by exploiting the vein of low cost cosmetic surgery in Eastern Europe. To develop his business plan, he takes refuge with his sister Monique, director of an Emmaus village. By dint of giving them a better future, he will eventually take a whole group of companions to a clinic in Bulgaria, to all come back more beautiful.

Cast[edit]

Jean Dujardin as Jacques Pora
Yolande Moreau as Monique Pora
Jean-Benoît Ugeux as Vincent

Production[edit]

Principal photography on the film began in August 2017 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.^[4]^[5] It took place in the Emmaus village in Lescar. Other filming sessions took place in Pau, around the funiculaire and the city centre, as well as in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées).^[6] Sequences were shot in Romania at Nicolae Ceaușescu's Palace of the Parliament and in Bulgaria at the Buzludzha Monument.

References[edit]

^ "I FEEL GOOD | Jean Dujardin chez Gustave Kervern et Benoît Delépine". 19 December 2017.
^ "I Feel Good (2018) - JPBox-Office".
^ "I Feel Good".
^ "Jour de tournage avec Jean Dujardin". ladepeche.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
^ Pau, Sud Ouest (18 August 2017). "Pau : l'équipe du film "I feel good" en tournage ce vendredi au funiculaire". SudOuest.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
^ "En tournage pour le film "I feel good", Jean Dujardin adore le Béarn - France Bleu". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

External links[edit]

I Feel Good at IMDb

This article related to a French film of the 2010s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article related to a Belgian film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "I FEEL GOOD | Jean Dujardin chez Gustave Kervern et Benoît Delépine". 19 December 2017.

[2] "I Feel Good (2018) - JPBox-Office".

[3] "I Feel Good".

[4] "Jour de tournage avec Jean Dujardin". ladepeche.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2017.

[5] Pau, Sud Ouest (18 August 2017). "Pau : l'équipe du film "I feel good" en tournage ce vendredi au funiculaire". SudOuest.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2017.

[6] "En tournage pour le film "I feel good", Jean Dujardin adore le Béarn - France Bleu". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]