2024-01-10 03:46:00
Nothing to see: after the Goldman Trial, a sober trial film set in the heart of the 70s, Cédric Kahn, whose moment it is, pulls out of his hyperactive hat a contemporary, disheveled film, his own American Night, set in a French cinema much less glamorous than in the time of Truffaut. Or Simon (Denis Podalydès), director undermined by anxiety attacks and the start of chaotic filming: platform financiers in PLS faced with the threat of a film that is too dark, actor who overdoes it, clumsy intern , everything is good to grind in the adventure of creation to transform the misfortunes of some into comic whey. Not really a new recipe, but it still works.
Thus, Jonathan Cohen, once again perfectly hilarious in the abnormally invested leading role, Xavier Beauvois as a cunning producer or Emmanuelle Bercot as a production director who is not meant to be. The old people on one side and the young people on the other (Stefan Crépon, Souheila Yacoub), a whole family of French cinema who came to laugh at themselves and ask themselves some not-so-anecdotal questions about working relations at the within their small environment.
The film that Simon is directing focuses on the occupation of a factory and the hypothesis of cooperative management, while behind the camera wage conflicts multiply and lead to THE scene of the film: this expected moment where the mise en abyme reaches its climax, and where a thing comes out of the shadows to set the record straight with Jonathan Cohen. The filter of fiction then almost completely disappears to give way to the impression of witnessing a real intimate scene at the heart of French cinema, something that would not pass through any making-of film.
Making of by Cédric Kahn, with Denis Podalydès, Jonathan Cohen, Stefan Crépon, 1h54.
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