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Michel Hazanavicius: "It's difficult to make a film, even a failure"

2022-05-17T17:45:33.751Z


INTERVIEW – The director of OSS 117 presented at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival his new film Coupez!, a funny comedy which recounts a filming turning into a nightmare.


After

The Artist

,

The Search

and

Le Redoutable

, Michel Hazanavicius is back in Cannes and in cinemas with

Coupez!.

A remake of a Japanese film.

An irresistible shooting comedy.

A love letter to the cinema, stained with (fake) blood.

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Our review of

Cut!

, by Michel Hazanavicius: clever zombie

LE FIGARO.

- There are still three weeks,

Cut!

was titled

Z (like Z)

, a title that became problematic with the war in Ukraine…

Michael HAZANAVICIUS.

-

To be honest, I was shown something that, from my point of view as a French filmmaker, author of a comedy, I hadn't anticipated.

The question began to arise with Zemmour who puts Z everywhere.

My little Z to me then escapes me a little but, after all, it is a letter of the alphabet.

I do not care.

And then come the first Russian tanks with the letter Z. I don't make the connection either with my film, which has nothing to do with it.

From the moment it is selected for Cannes, it becomes international and sends a signal to the world: “Cannes opens with Z”…

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Source: lefigaro

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