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Inside ‘La Comédie-Française’: Unifrance Rendez-Vous Opener Sends Up France’s Most Elite Arts Institution
- La Comédie-Française project opens Unifrance Rendez-Vous with a behind-the-scenes series concept about the theatre.
- The team shifted from sketches to a TV series, portraying actors as themselves to reveal life beyond the curtain.
- Funding and governance posed challenges, requiring persuasion of actors’ society and internal approvals.
- Filming was tightly scheduled to fit the main stage's availability, ending at 5 p.m. daily.
- Producers credited Unifrance and related partners with securing rapid financing after a whirlwind development.
- The series aims to be accessible and humorous, avoiding elite-only presentation of Shakespeare and Molière.
- The project reflects a broader push into digital formats and authentic storytelling of the arts institution.
- Executives tied this project to a broader slate of festival and distribution activity for related films.
- The opening acts at Rendez-Vous showcased the potential for a TV series built around internal life at a historic troupe.
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