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Maxime Govare
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Interview: Cédric Le Gallo and Romain Brau (The Shiny Shrimps)
Having experienced commercial and critical success in its native France, The Shiny Shrimps, a comedy about an ostensibly homophobic competitive swimmer nearing the end of his professional career who is ordered to train an incompetent LGBTQ+ water polo team as punishment for a public indiscretion, opens in the UK this weekend. I caught up with …
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Film Review: The Shiny Shrimps
The Shiny Shrimps is co-written and co-directed by Cédric Le Gallo, making his feature debut here, and Maxime Govare, previously known for the comedies I Kissed a Girl (2015) and Daddy Cool (2017). The film is about a curmudgeonly, humourless, 33-year-old Olympic swimmer, Matthias Le Goff (Nicolas Gob), who is coming to the end of …