Guess Who's Calling! (2025)

Original title

Le Répondeur

Directed by

Fabienne Godet

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling impressionist gets hired by a writer to impersonate him on the phone. The impressionist starts improvising his responses, leading to trouble for the writer.

lightheartedplayfulamusingupbeatcomedicquirkyfast-pacedwhimsical

What happens

Guess Who's Calling! (French: Le Répondeur, lit. "The Answering Machine") is a French comedy film, directed by Fabienne Godet and released in 2025. The film stars Salif Cissé as Baptiste, a comedy impressionist who is struggling to break through in his career, and Denis Podalydès as Pierre, a writer who is struggling to minimize life distractions as he works on his new novel. After Pierre has the idea to hire Baptiste as a human answering machine, impersonating him on the phone so that he can avoid talking to people himself, career and personal complications ensue when Baptiste begins to improvise the things he says to Pierre's callers. The cast also includes Clara Bretheau, Aure Atika, Manon Clavel, Ismaël Sy Savané, Harrison Arevalo, Serge Postigo, Thierry Bosc and Camille Cayol in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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