MILF: Why was the movie such a huge and unexpected hit on Netflix?

In 2018, Axelle Laffont directed a comedy titled milf, which he also starred in. In this one, they are Cécile, Sonia and Élise, three childhood friends, played by Axelle Laffont, Marie-Josée Croze, Virginie Ledoyen, who go to the Côte d’Azur to empty the house of one of them in order to put it up for sale. . A comedy that, when it was released in theaters, did not have the expected success. In July 2020, the Netflix streaming platform added it to its catalog and propelled it to center stage. According to the Looper site, the work rose to the fifth place in the top 10 most viewed movies on the platform in the United States. One of the main reasons would be the title chosen by Netflix. It’s of”original content“, which would tend to attract viewers, curious to discover the content of this film.

In this comedy, it is Cécile, Sonia and Élise who, while on the Côte d’Azur, meet three young people. Amused at the thought of being attracted to these much older women, They will try to seduce you. For their part, they will lend themselves to the game and little by little they will become aware of their power of seduction as a MILF. According to the Looper medium, what could also attract viewers is the fact that the actors and the production did not hesitate to play with nudity. “One of the most consistent elements of the film is how the camera’s eye remains focused on its seductive male and female leads“, affirmed the medium. In addition, it is clarified that, unlike “some of the other ten recent netflix entries, this movie leans into the laughs as much as it does the sex appealA mix that seems to have convinced the users of the platform.

Axelle Laffont: Did you draw inspiration from your own experience for this scenario?

When her film was released, Axelle Laffont had a series of interviews and in particular one with Télé Star. The opportunity for her to say more about her inspiration in this film. “I had started writing the script earlier. my story with Cyril Paglino (Editor’s note: Secret Story 2 finalist)“, he had explained before adding: “But it turns out that later I lived this wonderful story with a man sixteen years younger than me and that necessarily fed my writing.“. Their relationship, Axelle Laffont had mentioned it with total transparency.”At the beginning of our story, it made me stronger, with this feeling of being more desirable. Sharing the life of someone younger, energizes you, makes you thirsty for new projects“, he had concluded.

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