Bacon on the Side

Bacon on the Side (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.