Best of du film: La cité de la peur par unreal_T
La cité de la peur could be said being a movie about how to make an uninteresting screenplay interesting by using extraordinary methods. On the other hand if these extraordinary methods - as in this film - are not controlled by the director, the producer, the actors, the film company and these very methods includes murders, it could become frightening or intriguing, n'est-ce pas?!
We meet a publicist - Odile Deray (Chantal Lauby) - who tries to 'sell' the movie 'Red is Dead' to the Cannes film festival jury. Unfortunately for her, the unanimous opinion is that the film 'sucks', if the expression is allowed.
The story in 'Red is Dead' circles around a serial killer who uses a hammer and a sickle to kill his victims and of course this would - in the 'entertainment category' - attract some attention but when the projectionist is killed by someone using the same method, then, the cynic world of cinema awakens.
All of a sudden this film becomes one of the most interesting œuvres during the festival and even more so when all the following projectionists are killed in the same way.
Odile brings the somewhat 'mentally retarded' (I don't like the expression but can't find a better word right now) star Simon Jérémi (Dominique Farrugia) to Cannes and at the same time she hires the bodyguard Serge Karamazov (Alain Chabat) (not one of the brothers I think) to protect both Simon and the projectionists.
Unfortunately he focuses more on Oldile and particularly her body - applying the word 'bodyguard' very physically and sexually - leading to that more projectionists are murdered and making the life of Simon even more perilous.
On the whole this is a combination between different comic genres from the old silent movies ('Sherlock Jr', Buster Keaton perhaps?) to more recent movies in the same genre ('The Naked Gun', Leslie Nielsen perhaps?).
It's filled with some amusing parts and the references to different horror movies are legio of course but also to movies of all kind: 'Terminator', 'Deer Hunter', 'Pretty Woman' and many, many more.
There are many fine French actors participating in this film though: Gérard Damon, Eric Prat, Marc de Jonge and Valérie Lemercier (a favourite French comedienne).
Personally I don't find the jokes to refined and the film isn't a cut above other similar movies, though it has gained 'cult status' among many film lovers. One could argue that my 'non-understanding' or 'not-full-appreciation' of the jokes has to do with the fact that I'm a Swede and that the differences between French and Swedish or Anglo-Saxon humour are to vast. This might be true as Aurore appreciated the film more than I did. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of French comedies and I have lived in France for two years whereby I now should be more familiar with the 'latin' humour, but...?
"Oh attention chérie ca va coupé!"
We meet a publicist - Odile Deray (Chantal Lauby) - who tries to 'sell' the movie 'Red is Dead' to the Cannes film festival jury. Unfortunately for her, the unanimous opinion is that the film 'sucks', if the expression is allowed.
The story in 'Red is Dead' circles around a serial killer who uses a hammer and a sickle to kill his victims and of course this would - in the 'entertainment category' - attract some attention but when the projectionist is killed by someone using the same method, then, the cynic world of cinema awakens.
All of a sudden this film becomes one of the most interesting œuvres during the festival and even more so when all the following projectionists are killed in the same way.
Odile brings the somewhat 'mentally retarded' (I don't like the expression but can't find a better word right now) star Simon Jérémi (Dominique Farrugia) to Cannes and at the same time she hires the bodyguard Serge Karamazov (Alain Chabat) (not one of the brothers I think) to protect both Simon and the projectionists.
Unfortunately he focuses more on Oldile and particularly her body - applying the word 'bodyguard' very physically and sexually - leading to that more projectionists are murdered and making the life of Simon even more perilous.
On the whole this is a combination between different comic genres from the old silent movies ('Sherlock Jr', Buster Keaton perhaps?) to more recent movies in the same genre ('The Naked Gun', Leslie Nielsen perhaps?).
It's filled with some amusing parts and the references to different horror movies are legio of course but also to movies of all kind: 'Terminator', 'Deer Hunter', 'Pretty Woman' and many, many more.
There are many fine French actors participating in this film though: Gérard Damon, Eric Prat, Marc de Jonge and Valérie Lemercier (a favourite French comedienne).
Personally I don't find the jokes to refined and the film isn't a cut above other similar movies, though it has gained 'cult status' among many film lovers. One could argue that my 'non-understanding' or 'not-full-appreciation' of the jokes has to do with the fact that I'm a Swede and that the differences between French and Swedish or Anglo-Saxon humour are to vast. This might be true as Aurore appreciated the film more than I did. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of French comedies and I have lived in France for two years whereby I now should be more familiar with the 'latin' humour, but...?
"Oh attention chérie ca va coupé!"
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