I Feel Good (film)

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| name = I Feel Good

| image = I Feel Good poster.jpg

| caption =

| director = Benoît Delépine
Gustave de Kervern

| writer = Benoît Delépine
Gustave de Kervern

| producer = Benoît Delépine
Marc Dujardin
Gustave de Kervern

| starring = Jean Dujardin
Yolande Moreau

| cinematography = Hugues Poulain

| editing = Stéphane Elmadjian

| music = Hakim Amokrane
Mustapha Amokrane
Nicolas Liorit
Motivés
Ghislain Rivera

| studio = Arte
Wild Bunch
No Money Productions

| distributor = Ad Vitam

| released = {{film date|2018|08|11|Locarno|2018|09|26|df=yes|ref2={{Cite web|url=http://www.lebleudumiroir.fr/i-feel-good-jean-dujardin-gustave-kervern-delepine/|title = I FEEL GOOD | Jean Dujardin chez Gustave Kervern et Benoît Delépine|date = 19 December 2017}}}}

| runtime =

| country = France
Belgium
Germany
USA

| language = French

| budget = $4.8 million{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=18358|title = I Feel Good (2018) - JPBox-Office}}

| gross = $4 million{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fIFEELGOOD01&country=FR&wk=2018W39&id=_fIFEELGOOD01&p=.htm|title=I Feel Good}}

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I Feel Good is a 2018 French comedy satire of both capitalism and communism directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern.

Plot

Jacques, an ambitious man pushed from the home by his old parents, decides one fine day to become rich and famous by exploiting the vein of low cost cosmetic surgery in Eastern Europe. To develop his business plan, he takes refuge with his sister Monique, director of an Emmaus village. By dint of giving them a better future, he will eventually take a whole group of companions to a clinic in Bulgaria, to all come back more beautiful.

Cast

Jean Dujardin as Jacques Pora
Yolande Moreau as Monique Pora
Jean-Benoît Ugeux as Vincent

Production

Principal photography on the film began in August 2017 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.{{cite web|url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/08/21/2630958-jour-de-tournage-avec-jean-dujardin.html|title=Jour de tournage avec Jean Dujardin|website=ladepeche.fr|accessdate=6 September 2017}}{{cite news|url=http://www.sudouest.fr/2017/08/18/pau-l-equipe-du-film-i-feel-good-en-tournage-ce-vendredi-au-funiculaire-3705283-4344.php|title=Pau : l'équipe du film "I feel good" en tournage ce vendredi au funiculaire|website=SudOuest.fr|date=18 August 2017|accessdate=6 September 2017|last1=Pau|first1=Sud Ouest}} It took place in the Emmaus village in Lescar. Other filming sessions took place in Pau, around the funiculaire and the city centre, as well as in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées).{{Cite web |date=2017-08-17 |title=En tournage pour le film "I feel good", Jean Dujardin adore le Béarn - France Bleu |url=https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/culture-loisirs/en-tournage-pour-le-film-i-feel-good-jean-dujardin-adore-le-bearn-1502989922 |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=ici, par France Bleu et France 3 |language=fr}} Sequences were shot in Romania at Nicolae Ceaușescu's Palace of the Parliament and in Bulgaria at the Buzludzha Monument.