La Vengeance d'une blonde

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La Vengeance d'une blonde
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Written by Michel Delgado
Valentine Albin
Marie-Anne Chazel
Bernard Murat
Starring Christian Clavier
Marie-Anne Chazel
Annie Cordy
Clémentine Célarié
Thierry Lhermitte
CinematographyJean-Yves Le Mener
Edited byCatherine Kelber
Music by Eric Levi
Distributed byAMLF
Release date
26 January 1994
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$12.2 million [1]

La Vengeance d'une blonde is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Jeannot Szwarc. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Plot

Gérard Breha is journalist on a Breton regional channel. He host, happy, his last Show, as he has been named host to the 23 hours newsreader on the large private TV channel 8... He moved with his wife Corine, actress, and their two children in Paris, tentatively in Jany (great seductress), the mother of Corine, to start this new life. [5]

Cast

Reception

The film opened at number one at the French box office. [6]

Music

Cover artwork of the soundtrack La Vengeance d'une blonde artwork.jpg
Cover artwork of the soundtrack

Eric Lévi had composed the soundtrack for Les Visiteurs, the highest-grossing film in France in 1993, also starring Christian Clavier. For La Vengeance d'une Blonde he wrote the score and the end-credit song. The song People and Places was written by Lévi with Roxanne Seeman and Philip Bailey, who sings it as a duet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Philippe Manca is featured on guitar. Thierry Rogan mixed the track at Studio Mega. [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."People and Places" Eric Levi, Philip Bailey, Roxanne Seeman Dee Dee Bridgewater & Philip Bailey 4:07
2."The City Of Lights"Levi 1:41
3."The City Of Lights (Lead Guitar)"Levi 1:41
4."People and Places (Club Mix)"Levi, Bailey, SeemanDee Dee Bridgewater & Philip Bailey4:07
5."YAM Intro" Leonard Caston, Anita Poree 0:13
6."King Of The Night"Levi 3:50
7."YAM Exit"Levi 0:13
8."TV 8 Countdown"Levi 0:51
9."Melo Sax"Levi 0:19
10."Back To Zero"Levi 0:40
11."Séduction"Levi 1:14
12."Hijack"Levi 1:40
13."People and Places (Instrumental)"Levi, Bailey, Seeman 4:07
14."YAM's World"Levi 1:50
15."YAM 4"Levi 0:50
16."YAM 5"Levi 0:50

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