For four seasons, the agents of ASK spent their working lives keeping other people’s careers alive. Andréa Martel talked stars down from their panic, rewrote their contracts, and made herself invisible so the work could go on. Call My Agent! The Movie gives her the one job she never had to do for anyone else: make something, and put her own name on it.

Five years after the agency closed, Andréa is a first-time director. The engine of the film is a single piece of cruel timing — days before her debut shoot, her lead actor walks. What follows is the show’s kind of comedy: a scramble to recast, a fallout with her producer, and a forced reunion with Noémie, once the office’s overworked assistant and now a reality-television producer with real leverage. The people who spent years fixing everyone else’s emergencies finally have one they cannot hand to a client.

That reversal is the film’s actual subject, and it is a sharper idea than a reunion is obliged to have. A series about representation — about the gap between an artist and the person paid to sell the artist — comes back as exactly the kind of star-driven event its characters used to broker. George Clooney and Eva Longoria appear as themselves, alongside Laurent Lafitte, Laetitia Casta and Vincent Macaigne. The joke folds back onto the show: the cameo economy that Dix pour cent satirised for four seasons is now the machinery selling the movie.

Émilie Noblet directs, from a script by series creator Fanny Herrero and Lison Daniel. The core ensemble is intact. Camille Cottin returns as Andréa, with Thibault de Montalembert as Mathias, Grégory Montel as Gabriel, Nicolas Maury as Hervé, Fanny Sidney as Camille and Liliane Rovère as Arlette; Laure Calamy is back as Noémie. That continuity carries more weight than any guest name. The series’ strongest currency was never the celebrity of the week. It was the office — the way these characters fought, covered for one another, and let ambition curdle into loyalty and back again.

The agent who has to become the artist

Herrero built the series on a specific tension: an agent exists to be invisible, and invisibility is corrosive. Moving Andréa into the director’s chair pays that tension off directly. The person who spent her life reading other people’s talent now has to expose her own, in the most public room a film industry keeps. The trailer holds the register the show is known for — fast, overlapping, closer to a workplace comedy than a nostalgia lap — and frames the premise as a problem to be solved rather than a reunion to be applauded.

It also raises the stake that the series kept circling. Andréa was always the most driven agent at ASK and the one most punished for it, and the film puts her ambition on the floor rather than in the background. On the record, the recasting crisis is not a subplot; it is the whole structure, the device that drags a dispersed ensemble back into one workplace and restores the office as the real set. A comedy about talent agents works best when the room is full and the phones will not stop, and the premise is engineered to refill that room.

Noémie’s arc sharpens the same point. The assistant who used to absorb the agents’ chaos now runs her own productions, and the reunion is not a favour so much as a negotiation between two people who have each moved a rung. The show was always precise about hierarchy — who fetches coffee, who takes the meeting, who gets the credit — and pairing a first-time director with a producer who came up through the same office is the kind of role-reversal the series spent four seasons setting up.

From France 2 to a worldwide Netflix drop

The move to Netflix is its own quiet argument. Dix pour cent began on France 2, a public broadcaster, as a French comedy about French show business. Its afterlife was global. The Call My Agent! title travelled, official remakes followed in the United Kingdom, India, Turkey and elsewhere, and the streaming catalogue turned a domestic ensemble into an export. Bringing the original cast back as a Netflix film closes that loop. The show that watched French cinema bargain with its own myths is now a platform release with worldwide reach on the first day.

There is a neatness to that which the film seems aware of. A story about agents who broker access is arriving through the platform that has done more than any other to reorganise how French audiences reach French films. The guest stars reinforce it: an American movie star and an American television producer, dropped into a Paris comedy, are the clearest possible signal that the domestic industry the series anatomised now operates on a global shelf. Whether the film treats that as a gain or a loss is one of the things worth watching for.

What the premise puts on the floor

What the film cannot resolve is the question the series always kept open. The agents believe in the artists they serve; the industry that employs them does not reliably return that belief. Handing Andréa a camera tests it in the open — whether the people who build careers for others ever get to claim one, or whether the machine only ever lets them broker. The setup states the question plainly and, from everything available before release, declines to answer it early.

Two characters talking outdoors, one holding a small ball, in Call My Agent! The Movie — Call My Agent! The Movie. Cr. Christophe Brachet/Netflix

That restraint is the reason a reunion built for nostalgia can still carry an argument. The cameos will travel, the friendships will land, and the recasting farce will do the comic work the trailer promises. Underneath it is a harder proposition about authorship and who is allowed it — the same proposition the show raised every time an agent quietly saved a film and let someone else take the bow. The movie hands the bow to Andréa and waits to see whether she can hold it.

Call My Agent! The Movie premieres at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival on 29 August 2026 and streams worldwide on Netflix from 10 September 2026. Émilie Noblet directs, from a screenplay by Fanny Herrero and Lison Daniel. The ASK ensemble returns — Camille Cottin, Laure Calamy, Thibault de Montalembert, Grégory Montel, Nicolas Maury, Fanny Sidney and Liliane Rovère — with George Clooney, Eva Longoria, Laurent Lafitte, Laetitia Casta and Vincent Macaigne appearing as guests.