Chose Promise (2007)
- Genre
- stand-up comedy
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A French comedian plays a teacher who does a comedy show to honor a promise to his dead friend. He tries ventriloquism, shadow puppetry, a play and a song before dropping character to joke about dressing room mirror lights.
comedicmetaplayfultheatricalbittersweetenergeticintimateabsurd
What happens
Chose Promise (French: [ʃoz pʁɔmiz]; Promised Thing) is a one-man show performed by the French comedian Arnaud Tsamere from 2007 to 2014. Written by Tsamere, François Rollin and Arnaud Joyet, it features the character Patrice Valenton, a teacher who is performing a comedy show because of a promise he made to his friend Rémi, who died in a car accident. After explaining this, he attempts ventriloquism, shadow puppetry, a vaudeville play and a song about Rémi. Tsamere then comes out of character and does a routine about bulbs around mirrors in dressing rooms. The show's title comes from the expression chose promise, chose due ("a promise is a promise") and it deals with the theme of death; the character of a teacher was chosen to depict failure. Chose Promise was released on DVD on 6 March 2013 after being recorded at the Sébastopol Theatre in Lille, and its final performances were at the Olympia in February 2014—it has been broadcast on the television channels Comédie+ and D17. It was well received by critics, who praised Tsamere's performance, particularly in the vaudeville sequence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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