Bacon on the Side

Bacon on the Side (French: Il reste du jambon?) 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. Depétrini, Bedia's real-life wife at the time, wrote the film as a fictionalization of their own relationship. The film's cast also includes Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Mohamed Fellag, Géraldine Nakache, Leïla Bekhti, Frédéric Chau, Biyouna, Arnaud Henriet and Franck Gastambide. The film won the Radio-Canada Audience Award at the 2011 Cinéfranco film festival.