Why did Jackie Chan break the house?

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Antoine Coursat on RFI for his documentary on the inventor of comic kung fu: "Jackie Chan, humor, glory and kung fu" © GOLDEN_HARVEST_JACKIE CHAN_Seq_Revanche_JC

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Antoine Coursat signs the documentary 

, a joyful portrait that unfolds the life of the inventor of comic kung fu. 

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At the dawn of the 80s, it tumbled like a cannonball in Asian, then American and Western cinemas, then in video cassettes or on the walls of teenage rooms.

A friendly and smiling face, astonishing flexibility and agility and an unparalleled stunt talent put at the service of incredible action films.

A mix of Bruce Lee and Buster Keaton, not cold-eyed, more spleen-dilating style.

More than 150 films later, what place has

made in the world of cinema with the strength of his fists and his legs?

The documentary

, signed

The documentary is available on

until January 17, 2022.

On the menu of this gourmet café

• Fanny Bleichner takes

  us to 1989, in Seine Saint Denis, to go see 

  Suprêmes

  , Audrey Estrougo's film which traces the beginnings of the group NTM. 

• Muriel Maalouf

   went to see

  Istiqlal, 

  the new play by Tamara Al Saady to be applauded at the Théâtre aux Quartiers d'Ivry, until November 21, 2021.

• Amélie Beaucour

  introduces us to a very young singer: Arlo Parks with her

  angelic

  voice and orange hair, she is releasing her first album 

  Collapsed in Sunbeams

  . 

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