La Vengeance d'une blonde is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Jeannot Szwarc.
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Plot
Gérard Breha is a journalist on a Breton regional channel. He hosts happily his last show, as he has been named host to the 23 hours newsreader on the large private TV channel 8. He moves with his wife Corine, an actress, and their two children in Paris, tentatively in Jany (great seductress), the mother of Corine, to start a new life.
Cast
Christian Clavier as Gérard Bréha
Marie-Anne Chazel as Corine Bréha
Annie Cordy as Jany
Clémentine Célarié as Marie-Ange de la Baume
Thierry Lhermitte as Gilles Favier
Marc de Jonge as Vernon
Philippe Khorsand as Régis Montdor
Angelo Infanti as Giacomo Contini
Antoine Duléry as Alex
Franck de la Personne as Stéphane
Jean-Paul Muel as Castol
Maurice Lamy as The Albino
Mathias Jung as The Hail
François Toumarkine as Ventru
Laurent Gendron as Goulot
Véronique Moest as Bella
Naël Kervoas as Athéna
Michel Vivier as Raymond
Michel Fortin as Norbert
Urbain Cancelier as The delivery guy
Fabienne Chaudat as The servant
Reception
La Vengeance d’une blonde received positive reviews and opened at number one in France. It totaled more than 2 million admission tickets in 1994.
Soundtrack
Eric Lévi composed the score for La Vengeance d'une blonde following his score for Les Visiteurs, also starring Christian Clavier, and the highest-grossing film to date in France in 1993.
The song, People and Places, appearing over the end credits, was written by Lévi with Roxanne Seeman and Philip Bailey, and is performed by Bailey as a duet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Philippe Manca is the guitarist on both the song and score. Thierry Rogan mixed the track at Studio Mega. Eric Lévi and Frédérick Rousseau played keyboards on the soundtrack.