C.UT! ZOMBIES VS ZOMBIES
Genre: fake horror comedy
Direction: Michel Hazanavicius. With Roman Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Luz, Sébastien Chassagne
The beginning of the film takes us to a set where a crew is working on a shabby zombie movie. The crew during the shoot is attacked by real living dead.
Of course, there is something wrong if every now and then the action seems to stop, if the actors no longer remember the lines and call themselves with Japanese names despite being clearly European, but the amateurism of the operation is so general that one laughs before asking questions.
From left, Roman Duris, Bérénice Bejo and Simone Hazanavicius in “Cut! Zombies against zombies ”(photo by Lisa Ritaine).
Then, after the credits close this first part, the film goes back three months and everything takes on another dimension, discovering the behind the scenes of what we saw in the first half hour.
And the fun doubles, because thereo spectator reviews the film that was shot, but from the perspective of the overlapping catastrophes and the ways in which everyone more or less tries to deal with them. The idea comes from a Japanese film (Zombies against zombies) filmed among students as evidence of the end of the course.
Here Hazanavicius puts a cast of true professionals and the taste of irreverence that dismantles the presumed sacredness of cinema to put it back on its feet immediately afterwards, between goliardic spirit and cinephile pleasure. Finding that same pop and irreverent taste that she had already demonstrated with The Artist.
For those who don’t believe zombie movies are scary.
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