The trailer drops like a perfectly cut cold open: four seasons of French comedy prestige compressed into a two-minute promise that the gang has not lost its timing.
We are, of course, talking about the long-awaited film extension of Dix pour cent — known to international audiences as Call My Agent! — which Netflix has finally pulled back the curtain on. As Mashable reports, the reunion of the ASK agency crew looks less like a nostalgia play than a love letter to the series' sly, character-driven wit. Directed by Émilie Noblet and written by series creator Fanny Herrero alongside Lison Daniel, the feature picks up five years after the agency's doors closed for good.
The premise: egos, grudges, and a director's chair gone wrong
What hooks us first is the structural joke already baked into the premise. Camille Cottin's Andréa — once the agency's unflappable talent agent — has pivoted to directing her first feature, and by all accounts it is a disaster. That inversion is the engine of the film: the woman who once managed other people's meltdowns now presides over her own on-set chaos, with Laure Calamy's Noémie, now a powerhouse producer of reality television, brought in to bail her out.
It is a lovely piece of role-reversal that mirrors the series' own thesis — that the people behind the curtain are always more combustible than the stars they shepherd. Grudges and egos, we are told, will not be shaken easily when the full ASK crew reassembles for the occasion.
The ensemble and what the trailer reveals
What makes the promise land is the return of the roster intact: Thibault de Montalembert, Grégory Montel, Nicolas Maury, Fanny Sidney, Liliane Rovère, Laetitia Casta, Vincent Macaigne, Ophélia Kolb, Anne Marivin, and Laurent Lafitte. That is not a cameo parade; it is a statement of faith that the chemistry which carried four seasons has survived the half-decade gap.
Visually, the trailer signals a wider vocabulary than the show's contained boardroom geometry allowed — quicker cuts, more exterior light, the looser frame of a feature production rather than the grid of a single office. Whether the comedy's granular character work survives that translation from episodic to cinematic is the real question, and the footage hints the filmmakers trust it will.
What we will be watching for
A few things matter now, beyond the obvious pleasure of seeing these actors together again. First, how the film negotiates the tonal shift from contained farce to on-set chaos — a different comedic gear, and one the series only ever flirted with. Second, the marketing calculus of a French-language feature arriving on a global platform whose audience met the show largely through dubbing and subtitles. And third, the festival question: whether this earns a fall European premiere — Lumière, San Sebastián, a Paris showcase — or heads direct to streaming will tell us whether the team sees the film as a closing chapter for these characters or a quietly expandable new world. Either way, the trailer makes one thing clear. The door to ASK may have shut in 2020, but the light inside is still on.