Les « comédies d’argent » dans le cinéma français des années 2000 : rapports de genre et échanges économico-sexuels

“Money can’t buy me love”: radical right-wing populism in French romantic comedies of the 2010s

“…In opposing this life to a vision of international business depicted as vapid and dehumanizing, including through cross-cutting in the final sequence, Chic! joins hit lottery-win comedy franchise Les Tuche/The Tuche Family (Olivier Baroux, 2011, with further instalments in 2016 and 2018) and a raft of money-oriented smaller and/or auteur comedies of the 2000s (see Pillard 2018) in responding to the threatening encroachment of global capitalism by offering narratives that defensively shore up patriarchal nationalist values. 4 The Family of the French Many of the films described above evoke the topos of the family.…”