The Players () is a 2012 French sex comedy anthology film starring Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, with each of them also directing and writing a segment.
Plot Series of vignettes about the theme of male infidelity and its adulterous variants.
Cast Jean Dujardin as Fred / Olivier / François / Laurent / James Gilles Lellouche as Greg / Nicolas / Bernard / Antoine / Eric Lionel Abelanski as the director Guillaume Canet as Thibault Charles Gérard as Richard Sandrine Kiberlain as Marie-Christine Dolly Golden as the mistress as the emergency doctor Katia Lewkowicz as Maxime's mother Alexandra Lamy as Lisa as the waiter Mathilda May as Ariane Géraldine Nakache as Stéphanie Isabelle Nanty as Christine as Nathalie Manu Payet as Simon Clara Ponsot as Inès Hélène Seuzaret as Isabelle, Éric's wife as Benjamin as Julie Bastien Bouillon as Valentin
Controversy The promotional posters for the film, on which Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche are seen in suggestive positions (like gripping a pair of naked female legs), attracted accusations of sexism. The French professional authority of regulation for advertising received four official complaints accusing the posters of sexism. Following this controversy, the posters were taken down, and the distributor apologized.
Dujardin refers to I mostri by Dino Risi.
The original cut of the film included a scene where a man talks to a woman while a plane crashes into the World Trade Center. Reportedly, this scene has been censored to have better chances to get an Academy Award for Dujardin (who went on to win the Best Actor award for his leading role in The Artist).
Remake An Italian remake of the same name was released in 2020.
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