#261. Skoop : Trailer - Faubourgh 36 [2009]

The trailer is in for Sony Pictures Classics' "Paris 36" (a.k.a. "Faubourg 36") foreign drama starring Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Nora Arnezeder and Kad Merad. The film helmed by Christophe Barratier ("Les Choristes") sees limited theatres on April 3rd this year.The setting is Spring 1936 ;Léon Blum is in power, the Socialist Party is active, workers are striking and the weight of the Great Depression is beginning to be felt. When the owner of the local theatre falls behind on a debt, proprietorship passes to the local mob boss. For Pigoil, a stagehand, this is bad news. His wife has just left him, taking their adorable son Jojo, so when the gangster closes the failing theater, Pigoil finds himself alone and unemployed. Depressed and running out of money, Pigoil and his friends Milou, a proud idealist, and Jacky, a flawed comedian, decide to stand up to the mobster, occupy the theater and return it to its glory days. But their lineup of amateur cabaret and half-baked comedy looks decidedly lackluster until Douce, a beautiful young girl from the city, walks into the auditions. Cast as the singing announcer, Douce instantly charms the town with her beguiling looks and angelic voice. The Chansonia soon becomes famous all over Paris, but with love triangles, ongoing political tensions, the strain of the Depression and the mob boss's constant swindling, life isn't easy.