Concert - Louis de Funès - The Great Classics in Cine-Concert

By Mulder, 20 may 2022

For the first time and in agreement with the de Funès family, Overlook Events is organizing on October 8, 2022 at the Grand Rex, an exceptional cine-concert, retracing the work of the favorite French actor: Louis de Funès.

On this occasion, 25 of his most famous films will be presented with the help of a giant screen showing the best passages of the actor, all accompanied by an orchestra and a symphonic choir. From L'Aile ou la Cuisse to the Gendarmes saga, including La Folie des Grandeurs, Rabbi Jacob, Oscar, L'Homme Orchestre, Le Corniaud, Hibernatus, Pouic Pouic and La Grande Vadrouille, discover this unique tribute to Louis de Funès through a family show!

Louis de Funès de Galarza was a French actor and comedian. He remains one of the favorite actors of the French, according to a series of surveys conducted since the late 1960s, having played more than 150 roles in movies and more than 100 on stage. His acting style is remembered for its high energy and wide range of facial expressions and tics. Many of his best-known roles were directed by Jean Girault. He also enjoys wide international recognition. In addition to his immense fame in the French-speaking world, he is also still known in many other parts of the world, including German-speaking countries, the former Soviet Union, the former Eastern bloc, Italy, Spain, Greece, Albania, the former Yugoslavia, as well as Turkey, Iran, Israel and Mauritius. Despite his international fame, Louis de Funès remains almost unknown in the English-speaking world. He has only been exposed to a wider audience once in the United States, in 1974, with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, which is best remembered for Rabbi Jacob's dance scene and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Louis de Funès has two museums dedicated to his life and acting: one at the Chateau de Clermont, near Nantes, where he resided, and the other in the town of Saint-Raphael, in the south of France.

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(Source : press release)