David and Stéphane Foenkinos share the intimate life of several couples in "Les Fantasmes"
The directors of "Jalouse" brought together stars like Karin Viard, Monica Bellucci and Carole Bouquet.
Their often naughty humor never falls into vulgarity
David and Stéphane Foenkinos talk about sex and we like it
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The Fantasies that
they realize with four hands is a joy of mischievous humor.
They lead a beautiful gallery of stars in naughty sketches around six couples in search of erotic sensations.
“We started with classic ideas like filming ourselves or putting on costumes to gradually arrive at less common things,” David Foenkinos explains to
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The lesbian couple embodied by Monicca Belucci and Carole Bouquet knows ecstasy only in front of funerals while that of William Lebghil and Joséphine de Meaux has chosen abstinence.
Moral but no morals
“Our film is not intended as an inventory of French sexuality,” explains Stéphane Foenkinos. We have studied the behaviors of our heroes without judging them because each one must be able to act as he wishes as long as the partners are adults and consenting. The humor of the Foenkinos brothers, nimble without being vulgar, emphasizes the performances of accomplice performers. Everyone - from Karin Viard to Jean-Paul Rouve, including Nicolas Bedos, Céline Sallette, Ramzy Bedia and Denis Podalydès - seem to take great pleasure in sharing their characters' preferences. “The format of sketches featuring couples was particularly convenient for filming in the midst of a pandemic,” says Stéphane Foenkinos.
This allows the viewer to feel even closer to the protagonists whose intimacy they briefly share.
The directors of
Jalouse
sketch their characters without taking them for apples.
“Benevolence is fundamental in the way we look at them,” insists David Foenkinos.
Mockery and nastiness do not interest us.
Their tenderness tinged with irony does wonders to describe, among other things, a young woman exhilarated by the tears of her companion.
More than their fantasies, it is the secret desires of the protagonists that this comedy of manners probes which lifts morale without giving a moral lesson.
Even more fantasies
“We had to make a choice between the different existing practices and leave a lot of them aside,” specify the Foenkinos brothers.
We have plenty of material to write several sequels.
They have not finished exploring the fantasies of their contemporaries among whom the public will be able to have fun recognizing their own or discovering new ones.
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