"Bigbug" revives the nostalgia dear to Jean-Pierre Jeunet

• In the year 2045, a handful of humans are locked in a house by power-hungry androids.

• Jean-Pierre Jeunet entertains by delivering a joyful science fiction vaudeville.

• "Bigbug" is faithful to its universe and its nostalgic fantasy.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of the directors whose universe is recognizable at first glance.

, available on Netflix this Friday, has nothing to envy to the

and

in terms of delectable fantasy.

A real French science-fiction film “more of an anticipation”, specifies the filmmaker with humor.

He had not signed a feature film since 2013 and

.

“It's a vaudeville with robots that nobody wanted before Netflix gave me carte blanche, explains the filmmaker to

I was criticized for not fitting into a box, for being like kids who try to force round objects into square shapes.

Like this story, co-written with Guillaume Laurant, in which androids want to seize power and sequester humans (Elsa Zylberstein, Stéphane de Groodt, Isabelle Nanty) ready to do anything to escape.

vintage and technology

“I wanted to make a relatively cheap film, specifies Jean-Pierre Jeunet and I therefore took up the principle of

consisting of shooting in an enclosed place.

“His decor of a house stuffed with objects in warm colors like sour candies also evokes, sometimes, Jacques Tati or Wes Anderson, but it is pure Jeunet in the image of robots.

Whether it's those played by actors (sexy Alban Lenoir, touching Claude Perron and terrifying Frédéric Diefenthal) or a cute toy and a wooden mechanism operated by voice recognition, they are as beautiful as they are well animated.

Jean-Christophe Spadaccini and Pascal Molina shared their creation and it's very successful.

“I like vintage but I'm also a fan of technology, always on the lookout for new techniques, as evidenced by those I use in my films,” says Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

 is a shining demonstration of this “People who say they are not interested in the past deprive themselves of the delicious sensations of nostalgia.

» Those felt by the heroine who collects old books and trinkets and tries to compose between rebellious machines, capricious humans and cumbersome dog in a festival of gags tinged with suspense.

Not pessimistic for two pennies

"

is not pessimistic," insists Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Robots and technology will never replace humans because only humans have a soul.

This is the moral of this mischievous fable whose sumptuous images recall how much the filmmaker was missing in the landscape.

We hope it won't have to wait nine years to come back to make charmed spectators think, laugh and dream.

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