Programme Overview
Description
Based on the globally acclaimed Israeli format created by Assi Azar for Keshet 12, La Belle et Le Boulanger follows the impossible love story between an international superstar and a humble baker.
Benjamin Mercier (Amir Haddad) and Louise Meyer (Ludmilla von Claer) are like day and night. Literally. While Louise jet sets around the world to model for the biggest name designers and parties into the night, Benjamin is up early preparing baguettes at his family-run bakery. As his day begins and he says, “Good morning!” to his customers, she finally puts her phone down and goes to bed.
Louise and Benjamin should never have met... and yet they did, accidentally, in a restaurant men’s room, moments before Benjamin’s girlfriend Vanessa (Sarah Stern) surprised him with a very public marriage proposal. That evening, Benjamin's perfectly ordered life is turned upside down, and his entire family with it. Will his brother Roman (Gary Mihaileanu), who has always wanted to break into the rap industry, see his career take off thanks to Louise's fame? Will his little sister Flora (Mitty Hazanavicius) find the courage to tell her parents she's leaving France for the wide-open spaces of Patagonia? And will their parents (Lionnel Astier and Mathilda May), faced with their children leaving the nest, manage to reinvent themselves and spice up their relationship?
La Belle et le Boulanger is a romantic comedy about two complete opposites as they navigate each other’s world. Adapted in France by Marathon Studio and Terence Films for TF1, the four-part drama is directed by Hervé Mimran (Tout ce qui brille) and written by Caroline Franc, Marion Michau, Jane Rioufol, Léa Lando and Ichem Saïbi.