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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2018 – 90′ – Comedy – Written and Directed by Laurent Tirard. France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin) is set to marry the nai\u0308ve Pauline (No\u00e9mie Merlan) when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry, pushing her sister Elizabeth (M\u00e9lanie Laurent)\u00a0 to write fake letters on behalf of Neuville thinking he would never come back.<\/em> RETURN OF THE HERO | 2018 – 90′ – Comedy – Written and Directed by Laurent Tirard. Starring Jean Dujardin, M\u00e9lanie Laurent, No\u00e9mie Merlant. North American Premiere COLCOA 2018. In French with English subtitles. A Distrib Films U.S. release. | France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin) is set to marry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,13,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-comedy","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17977,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/17977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStarring Jean Dujardin, M\u00e9lanie Laurent, No\u00e9mie Merlant.
\nNorth American Premiere COLCOA 2018<\/strong>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Distrib Films U.S. release. |<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWhen Neuville finally returns home unexpectedly, he is welcomed in glory but in truth is a war deserter and an opportunistic coward. A suspicious Elizabeth is determined to expose the real Neuville and the two imposters are about to start a ruthless fight, conspiring against each other using the best tricks they can find.
\nAn hilarious comedy by the director of ASTERIX, MOLIERE, LE PETIT NICOLAS COLCOA audience winner:\u00a0 STORY OF MY LIFE, UP FOR LOVE, THE SPEECH and CALL MY AGENT.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"