Eric Blanc Movies
- 1998
Arthur Joffe directed this French comic fantasy, in French and English dialogue, about God (voice of Pierre Arditi), invisible and spinning through Heavenly space on an asteroid, along with his sidekick angel Rene (Ticky Holgado). God observes Earthly events on His television set. After hacking out a screenplay on the Hebrew keyboard of a manual typewriter, the Deity needs a director, lands as a burning bush in back of the Hollywood sign, finds Hollywood hostile, jumps to Paris, and travels from one body to another, eventually settling on tekkie Jeanne (Helene de Fougerolles), an employee at Harper Audiovisual. Faxes in Hebrew begin arriving, and Jeanne hears voices. With God's screenplay translated to French, it finally goes up to the 127th floor for an okay by Mr. Harper himself (Tcheky Karyo). But there's a problem -- God is not very happy about Mr. Harper's alterations, as he explains, "I wrote the Bible, the best-selling book of all time! Where do they get off editing my script?" ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, (more)
- 1989
Eric Blanc plays a man who has witnessed a car-bombing and become a major media celebrity. He just can't say enough about what he saw, and his speculations about it are extremely discomfiting to the French secret service. They wish he would just shut up. Instead, he tackles the task of finding out what really happened with the help of his supposedly wheelchair-bound stepfather Victor Lanoux, an ace detective who was forcibly "retired" from the police department as a result of his refusal to stop investigating cases when told to. Together, they comically stick a monkey wrench into the official machinery of cover-up. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Victor Lanoux, Eric Blanc, (more)
- 1988
Yann (Pierre Richard) has his artistic eye on Florence (Fanny Cottencon), who desires her for more than her aesthetic beauty. His efforts are continually hampered by his neighbors Boris (Richard Bohringer), an insanely jealous layabout and his beautiful wife Eva (Emmanuelle Beart). Michel Creton and Eric Blanc play the confused cops called on to settle the situation. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pierre Richard, Richard Bohringer, (more)
- 1988
This follow-up to the 1986 hit comedy follows the pattern of most sequels by failing to live up to the original. In his search for a jacket containing a wining lottery ticket, a white policeman makes contact with African immigrants living in Paris. He is followed by a black journalist and a big black mamma who has fallen in love with the white man. The highlight of the film is the performance of Black comic Eric Blanc, providing hilarious impressions of white people. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eric Blanc, Marc Citti, (more)
- 1987
Racism and the games people play with it aren't unique to the U.S. by any means. In this French comedy, Rachid, a nice-looking Arab boy, plays with the pervasive fear of non-whites in Paris by having two friends approach pretty girls while looking as sinister as they can, so that he can "rescue" them and strike up an acquaintance. When he and Denis, a black West Indies man, find themselves in pursuit of the same girl, oddly enough, they become best friends. They team up in order to try and persuade the girl's parents that they are respectable enough to rent an apartment from them. However, as any person of color knows, this is far more easily said than done wherever race (and class) are issues. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julie Jezequel, Smain, (more)
