Humor in uniform

French filmmaker Dany Boon hopes his new comedy about a female police trainee, who earns a place on an all-male elite force, will tickle the Chinese audience. Xu Fan reports.

Dany Boon may find it easy to make cinema audiences laugh, but the French comedy superstar has a past that might sound sad to most people.

The 51-year-old actor-director was born in Armentieres, a small town in northern France, which he describes as "a very poor neighborhood".