Les Kaïra (2012)
Directed by Franck Gastambide

Comedy
aka: Porn in the Hood

Film Synopsis

Mousten, Abdelkrim and Momo have been friends since they were boys, and still live on the housing estate in Melun, one of the rougher suburbs of Paris, where they grew up.  They have no money, no drive and no ambition, and their main - possibly only - preoccupation in life is getting themselves a girl.  Unfortunately, no girl will give them so much as a casual sideward glance.  Now that the three friends are in their early thirties they are beginning to get desperate.  Their insouciant bachelor lifestyle is starting to get them down.  Their morale well and truly sapped, they watch mournfully as their days drift idly by, bringing with them not even the remotest prospect of a woman.

It had never occurred to any of these three wannabe Casanovas that they might try their luck as a porn star.  When they hear that auditions are being held for the next X-Star, Mousten and his buddies suddenly see an easy way to fulfil all of their dreams.  Fame, money and women will be theirs for the taking if they can hit the big time in one of the most lucrative businesses going.  Confident of success, the three friends throw everything they have into this mad venture and soon discover that success isn't quite all that it is cracked up to be...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Franck Gastambide
  • Script: Franck Gastambide
  • Cinematographer: Antoine Marteau
  • Music: Éric Neveux
  • Cast: Medi Sadoun (Abdelkrim), Franck Gastambide (Mousten), Jib Pocthier (Momo), Alice Belaïdi (Kadija), Pom Klementieff (Tia), Ramzy Bedia (Warner), Hakim Sid (Steeve), Ismaël Sy Savané (Ismaël), Annabelle Lengronne (Stay), Sissi Duparc (Sylvaine), Anouar Toubali (Le mini-facteur), Jérôme Paquatte (Le videur du Pacha Club), Doudou Masta (Organisateur festival rap), François Bureloup (Bernard), Fatsah Bouyahmed (Roger), Katsuni (Katsuni), François Damiens (Claude Fachoune), Eric Cantona (L'entraîneur de foot), Elie Semoun (Elie Semoun), Alex Lutz (L'Egyptien partouze haut de gamme)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Aka: Porn in the Hood

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