"Blood oranges", sour, bitter and hilarious fruits

What a funny cheeky film that mixes characters as diverse as a politician, a couple of rock dancers and an innocent young girl.

At the same time schoolboy and social comedy, horror film, romantic tragedy and political thriller,

joyfully mistreats the public.

“It is an inventory of current France, explains

  Jean-Christophe Meurisse

to

.

Hence the title, smooth as a ripe fruit, but bleeding inside.

"

"The first image I thought of was a pair of balls passed in the microwave," laughs the director whose film, co-written with Amélie Philippe, was presented at the Midnight screening at the Cannes Film Festival.

I was inspired by a news story where a woman made the man who raped her eat her testicles.

This gastronomic idea is not the only one to have germinated in the brain of this man of the theater, founder of the troupe

and director of

(2015).

We're all blood oranges

“As a spectator, I like the changes of tones,” specifies Jean-Christophe Meurisse. I think that, more than the content of the film, this is what can disturb in

. The fact that the viewer never knows which foot to dance on and cannot place the film in a box can confuse them in our time when everything is labeled. "

Apart from those of Blanche Gardin and Denis Podalydès, we meet few known heads in this game of massacre which makes a mockery of political correctness. "I try to find humor in the most serious things which does not mean that I do not take them seriously," says the filmmaker. Suicide, rape, corruption and summary justice are among the themes he tackles head on. With a ferocity that oscillates between uneasy laughter and disgust in front of unacceptable behavior.

“It's up to the viewer, not me, to draw a moral from my film if he wishes.

I believe that the reality is less gloomy than our fiction: we are all blood oranges ”, insists him who says“ do not seek to shock but to provoke ”.

His acidic and hard-hitting vision will no doubt shock anyway, but it will also delight, deeply, an audience fond of atypical films, as long as it is not cold in the eyes.

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