‘Final Cut’ opening night film review at Cannes: Michel Hazanavicius’ great comedy about making a bad zombie movie

Originally slated to open at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, before the deterioration of Covid forced the festival to remain virtual again, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Michel Hazanavicius made the right choice and insisted on his comedy. . final cut (coupe!), A low-budget zombie who is about to shoot a movie must be introduced to a full house Theater, Fortunately, you don’t have to watch a prestigious film festival on your computer. To be sure, he scored a great goal having been chosen as the out of competition film on the opening night at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

It is entirely appropriate that the film is about love. Doing Films should mark the full comeback of the festival, which in its 75 years has dedicated everything to cinema. And for this director whose 2011 silent black and white film Artist There was also a love letter to the movies and also the premiere here on the way to the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director seems to be fate.

If Kane was looking for a very funny and heartfelt comedy to bring everything back to normal after a few years of being hit by a pandemic, he found it. The final Cut out (A remake of 2017’s ultra-low-budget Japanese hit) You may not know for the first half hour that it’s essentially about making a frighteningly scary Class Z zombie movie where French stars play all the Japanese characters. Names (don’t ask me). It’s really a bloody mess about an obsessed director shooting the latest instant film when he discovers the scene that was the scene of the assassination of Japan during WWII and she’s still dead. To achieve “sincerity”, he is doubled up when one of his actors becomes a real zombie, infecting the whole show, which turns into a horrible hell, when heads and arms fly and the actors and crew become zombies. , all looking for perfection. Real time passes for live online presentation.

Hazanavicius filmed his actors live for five weeks to remove this sequence, all in one carefully choreographed take (with an added correction). In hindsight, it’s an impressive technical achievement, but as you watch it, you wonder what the director really had in mind. Where can this thing go? After 30 minutes have passed in the movie “Latest Titles”, we will soon hear when the screenshot says “A month ago” and Doing Georgian Doing about this movie Doing The game of the zombie movie begins when an enthusiastic Japanese producer named Ms. Matso (Yoshiro Takehara) tries to involve director Remy (Roman Duris) in his idea of ​​a French adaptation of the online Japanese “live” zombie film, which he says was. A severe blow to her homeland. Though he avoids the idea as impossible, Remy finds himself drawn to him and eventually, when disaster strikes his two main stars 45 minutes before the show starts, he also takes on the role of director, as does his wife, Nadia. retired. Actress. A makeup artist who had to give up acting because she couldn’t distance herself from her roles in real life. Hazanavicius’ real wife, Berenice Bejo, becomes the perfect casting in every rerun. ᲤFinal installation, He even managed to look back with an ax.

this is where the last invasion The cunning and the charm really pay off the first half hour and the viewer sees it all together, warts and everything, a magic trick that is only possible in films and that, as he himself has shown. Artist, It’s a testament to his director’s love for film and the people behind the scenes, and that includes how bad he is in the film. While these are incredibly scary zombies and games, it’s a film credit that there ever was one like Hazanavicius. day night, But not the big shooting in 1973 of François Truffaut’s great love letter. Anyway, this one has zombies.

It also helps us to have a great kit to make this hat-trick and under the guidance of Duris and Bejo we have one. Finangan Oldfield as Raphael, the difficult advantage, and Matilda Lucy as Ava, the advantage, are excellent, along with Sebastien Shasani, Raphael Cuenar, Gregor Gadebo, Jean-Pasdal Zidane, Lie Salem, Agnes Hurstael, Agnes Hurstel. Dupont and even two of Hazanavicius’ daughters, Raika and Simone, the latter wonderfully playing the film’s fictional director’s daughter. Takehara is an absolute blast from the Japanese producer and was actually in the same role in the original 2017 Japanese film Shinichiro Ueda. A dead! What obviously inspired this new, more sophisticated version (of the work itself adapted ghost in the box) Which follows its pattern.

Alexander Desplatt offers perfectly sophisticated soundtracks and the technical credits are excellent, both for the making of this terrible zombie movie and for the movie itself. A special cry from Jonathan Rikeburg’s photography and Michael Dumantie’s film editing. Hazanavicius co-produced with Brahim Chiva, Alain de la Mata, Naomi David, Vincent Maraval and John Penotti. The North American layout must be meaningless.

you will come out Ფ Final installation With a smile on my face and a better reason than that, I couldn’t think of a better year to start the Cannes Film Festival year.