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| image = Nicky Larson et le Parfum de Cupidon film poster.jpeg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Philippe Lacheau

| producer = Christophe Cervoni
Marc Fiszman

| writer = Julien Arruti
Philippe Lacheau
Pierre Lacheau

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| starring =

| music = Michael Tordjman
Maxime Desprez

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| editing =

| studio = Les Films du 24
Axel films

| distributor = Sony Pictures Releasing International (France)
Path Films AG1 (Swiss)

| released =

| runtime = 91 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

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'Nicky Larson et le parfum de Cupidon' (; ; also known as 'City Hunter') is a 2018 French action comedy film directed by Philippe Lacheau who also co-wrote the screenplay with Julien Arruti and Pierre Lacheau. It is an adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime series 'City Hunter' (known as 'Nicky Larson' in France) by Tsukasa Hojo, who agreed to the adaptation after reading the script. The film features Philippe Lacheau, lodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali and Julien Arruti in lead roles, along with Didier Bourdon, Kamel Guenfoud, Sophie Mousel and Pamela Anderson in supporting roles. It was first released on 6 February 2019.

Synopsis



Nicky Larson is an unusual private investigator, as talented a street fighter as a sniper. He is often called on to solve problems that no one can solve. Aided by his partner Laura, he offers multiple services to his customers, more or less dangerous. But, as professional and famous as he is, he has a major flaw: his particularly exacerbated penchant for the fairer sex, which poses a lot of worries to Laura.

One of his clients entrusts him one day the mission to protect the "Cupid's perfume", a fragrance that makes anyone who wears it absolutely irresistible. But a moment of distraction on Larson's part allow thugs to seize it. Nicky Larson must then recover the perfume.

Cast



The characters are named as they are known in the French dubbed version of the anime series, while the Japanese dubbed version of the film uses their original names.

Promotion



At the Comic Con Paris in October 2018, it was revealed that Jean-Paul Csari and Vincent Ropion would make cameos in the film. The first being the interpreter of the French credits song of the animated series while the second is the French voice of the main character.

Release



The film was previewed over most of France on December 15, 2018, before its national release on February 6, 2019, the same in Switzerland. On February 13, 2019, the film was released in Belgium, on March 14, 2019 in Thailand and on May 23, 2019 in Russia under the title 'Undercover Playboy'.

Box office

The film debuted at #3 in France, with an opening weekend gross of 3,111,807 ($3,515,249). In France, the film sold more than 1million tickets and grossed 8,817,024 ($10,031,595) by 24 February 2019. As of 31 March 2019, the film has sold 1,684,350 tickets and grossed $12,898,742 in France.

The film released in Japan on 29 November 2019, debuting at #8 and grossing from 38,676 admissions in its first three days. , the film has grossed ($1,321,874) in Japan. In total, the film has sold 1,903,808 tickets and grossed $14,702,744 worldwide, .

Reception

On December 14, 2018, the day before the premiere, Simon Riaux, in his review for 'cran large', wrote: ... "the film sends a handful of sometimes hilarious images, sometimes imbued with unexpected prettiness (...) in subjective vision in quilted pursuit", but "the story manages to hold an astonishing harmony between pastiche and first degree. (...) The dialogues appear more than once as the main weak point of the team". Frdric Mignard from 'Avoir-alire' admits that it is "probably the most sympathetic film of its author since the 'Babysitting's, far from the recent shipwrecks in comic strip adaptation, like that of 'Gaston Lagaffe'. (...) To tell the truth, the misunderstandings gags and the astonishing situations are typical of the work of Lacheau (...) and as one is never bored nor has the impression of wasting his time, one mays pardon him his few artistic wanderings."

On the other side, Alexandre Lazerges of 'GQ' wrote that "Philippe Lacheau is worse than 'Qu'est-ce qu'on a encore fait au Bon Dieu?', destroying a cult manga despite the presence of Pamela Anderson and Dorothe"

See also



* 'City Hunter'

References




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