Bacon on the Side
# Bacon on the Side

Bacon on the Side (French: Il reste du jambon?; lit. 'Is there ham?') is a French romantic comedy film, released in 2010. Written and directed by Anne Depétrini, the film stars Ramzy Bedia and Anne Marivin as Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix, a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.

## Cast

* Ramzy Bedia as Djalil Boudaoud
* Anne Marivin as Justine Lacroix
* Marie-France Pisier as Nicole Lacroix
* Mohamed Fellag as Mahmoud Boudaoud
* Biyouna as Houria Boudaoud
* Jean-Luc Bideau as Charles Lacroix
* Géraldine Nakache as Sophie
* Leïla Bekhti as Anissa Boudaoud
* Arnaud Henriet as Mathieu
* Alex Lutz as Benoît Dubreuil
* Éric Judor as The vigil
* Frédéric Chau as Sophie's boyfriend
* Franck Gastambide, Medi Sadoun & Jib Pocthier as The 3 Swiss

## Around the film

Depétrini, Bedia's real-life wife at the time, wrote the film as a fictionalization of their own relationship.

The film won the Radio-Canada Audience Award at the 2011 Cinéfranco film festival.

