Les Crevettes pailletées (2019)

Directed by

Cédric Le Gallo, Maxime Govare

Genre

comedy film, road movie, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

18

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 475 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Olympic swimmer makes a homophobic comment on TV and is punished by coaching a gay water polo team. The team wants to compete in the Gay Games, and the swimmer must learn to work with them.

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What happens

The Shiny Shrimps (French: Les Crevettes pailletées) is a 2019 French sports comedy film directed by Cédric Le Gallo and Maxime Govare. Filmed in Croatia, the film stars Nicolas Gob as Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic swimming champion who makes a homophobic comment in a television interview, and is disciplined by the national swim team with the responsibility of coaching a gay water polo team who aspire to compete in the Gay Games. The film premiered at the L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival on 19 January 2019, and was released theatrically in France on 8 May 2019. A sequel, The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (French: La Revanche des Crevettes pailletées), was released on 13 April 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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