Papamobile with Kad Merad only comes out in 7 rooms! The director is angry

The new comedy carried by the actor and produced by Sylvain Estibal – César for best first film – will not be the surprise success of the summer of 2025.

You have not been to see Papamobile This weekend in the cinema? It’s normal.

The new comedy of Sylvain Estibal, however carried by the star Kad Merad, was only distributed in … 7 rooms!

At the time, current, the film is only visible in Avignon, in Bagnoles-de-l’Orne, Saverne, Douvaine, Évian-les-Bains, Romans-sur-Isère and in a Parisian region.

Arrived this Wednesday at the cinema, Papamobile Was obviously sacrificed by The Jokers (the distributor) and the film producer, Jean Bréhat, who confided outright in the columns of Chained duck : “C‘is missed, it is a not funny comedy, according to most of those who saw it. It happens in the profession. ”

The pill is hard to swallow for Sylvain Estibal, revealed in 2012 with The Gaza pig Won at the time the César for the best first film.

Responding to this rare outing, the filmmaker published a platform on the networks, in which he regrets the words of his producer and confides that he does not understand that the The film’s release was “as much scratch ”.

He says that Papamobile was shot in just 24 days in Mexico, without means. Besides, neither him nor Kad Merad nor Myriam Tekaïa will receive money for their work on this film, having agreed to be remunerated “mainly in participation“. So, “Since the film is hardly coming out in theaters, we will touch anything ” Assures Sylvain Estibal who, on the merits, assumes having made a tinkered film. “The lack of means is fully assumed in the realization, with a claimed ‘nanar’ side.

The synopsis also evokes a somewhat barred and not very serious comedy:

“On the last day of a historic journey to Mexico, the pope is removed by a drug cartel. The Holy Father discovers the mystical personality of the cartel’s head and the multiple activities of his gang. But soon, the formidable criminal understands that she took an imposter …”

Papamobile It will therefore not be the surprise success of the summer of 2025. There remains a possible second life: the film has been pre-purchased by Amazon and will be broadcast on OCS in the coming months. “I invite the curious to get their own opinion“Concludes the director in his message.