''Bacon on the Side'' (french: Il reste du jambon?; ) is a French romantic comedy film, released in 2010.
''Le Monde
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'', October 26, 2010. Written and directed by
Anne Depétrini
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, the film stars
Ramzy Bedia
Ramzy Habib El Haq Bedia ( ar, رمزي Øبيب إل ØÙ‚ بيديا ; born March 10, 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director of Algerian descent.
He started his career as a comedian in 1994 after meeting Eric Judor with whom ...
and
Anne Marivin
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Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...
as Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix, a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
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Cast
* Ramzy Bedia
Ramzy Habib El Haq Bedia ( ar, رمزي Øبيب إل ØÙ‚ بيديا ; born March 10, 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director of Algerian descent.
He started his career as a comedian in 1994 after meeting Eric Judor with whom ...
as Djalil Boudaoud
* Anne Marivin
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie.
Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...
as Justine Lacroix
* Marie-France Pisier
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Early life
Pisier was ...
as Nicole Lacroix
* Mohamed Fellag
Mohamed Fellag (born 31 March 1950 in Azeffoun, Tizi Ouzou) is an Algerian comedian, writer, humorist, and actor. In 1958, at the height of the Algerian war of independence, his father took him and his younger brother, for their safety, to stay w ...
as Mahmoud Boudaoud
* Biyouna
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Early life
Having a very early passion for singin ...
as Houria Boudaoud
* Jean-Luc Bideau
Jean-Luc Bideau (born 1 October 1940) is a Swiss film actor.
Personal life
Jean-Luc Bideau is married to Marcela Salivarova, a director of Czechoslovak origin. Together, they have two children: Nicolas, head of Presence Switzerland
Presence ...
as Charles Lacroix
* Géraldine Nakache
Géraldine Nakache (born 16 February 1980) is a French actress, director and screenwriter of Algerian Jews, Algerian Jewish descent.
Life and career
Nakache grew up in an Algerian Jews, Algerian Jewish family. She earned a Diplôme d'études uni ...
as Sophie
* Leïla Bekhti
Yasmine Leïla Bekhti (born 6 March 1984) is a French film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in '' Tout ce qui brille'' (2007) and, in 2006, ''Paris, je t'aime'' and ''Sheitan''.
Early life
Bekhti was born in 1984 in Issy-l ...
as Anissa Boudaoud
* Arnaud Henriet
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as Benoît Dubreuil
* Éric Judor
Éric Judor (born 25 July 1968 in Meaux), sometimes simply called Éric, is a French actor, director, screenwriter and comedian. He gained notoriety by forming, with Ramzy Bedia, the comedy duo Eric and Ramzy.
After several feature films with hi ...
as The vigil
* Frédéric Chau
Frédéric Chau (born 6 June 1977) is a Vietnam-born French actor of Chinese-Cambodian descent.
Life and career
Frédéric Chau was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to parents of the Chinese minority in Cambodia. In 1977, while his mother ...
as Sophie's boyfriend
* Franck Gastambide
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, Medi Sadoun
Medi Sadoun (born 8 July 1973) is a French actor born in Paris. He is known for playing the role of Rachid Benassem in ''Serial (Bad) Weddings
''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' (french: Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?, lit=What have we done to the ...
& Jib Pocthier
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as The 3 Swiss
Around the film
Depétrini, Bedia's real-life wife at the time, wrote the film as a fictionalization of their own relationship.[
The film won the Radio-Canada Audience Award at the 2011 ]Cinéfranco Cinéfranco is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which presents a weeklong program of both Canadian and international French language films.
History
The festival was established in 1997 by Marcelle Lean, a former chair of the On ...
film festival."Le public de Cinéfranco distribue les bons points"
''L'Express de Toronto
''L'Express'', formerly ''L'Express de Toronto'', is a French-language weekly newspaper, published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The paper concentrates primarily on local and regional news for Franco-Ontarians in the Greater Toronto Area and Centra ...
'', April 19, 2011.
References
External links
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2010 films
2010 romantic comedy films
French romantic comedy films
2010s French-language films
French interfaith romance films
Films about interracial romance
2010s French films
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