Synopsis
Cheeky Business (3615 Monique, 2020) is a French comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. France, 1980. The Videotex messaging network — the country's first shot at online communication — is just going live, and the possibilities are wide open.
Three broke students in the Paris suburbs see exactly one of those possibilities. Simon, Toni and Stéphanie dislike each other enough that sharing a room should be impossible. Turns out shared desperation cuts through all of that. Together, and arguing every step of the way, they launch the world's first erotic chat service over a modem line. Directors Simon Bouisson and Guillaume Renousson play it as a pre-internet startup comedy — cramped, chaotic, and stumbling into something massive. Noémie Schmidt, Arthur Mazet and Paul Scarfoglio make the friction between their characters feel like the actual engine of the whole enterprise.
The "Minitel rose" culture that followed in real life became a defining piece of French pop history. Watch Cheeky Business (2020) online on iFILM.
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