One might think that
Cut!
by Michel Hazanavicius is the adaptation of
Do not cut!
, parody of a gore film that was a great success in Japan.
But in fact, not at all!
Or at least not quite
The dramatic and comic springs of the two films may be the same,
Cut!
is actually the sequel to
Don't Cut!
, that Japanese producers came to order from a French film crew composed, as in the original film, of broken arms.
It's almost the same movie, except for a few details.
We find in
Cut!
by Michel Hazanavicius the same virtuoso first sequence-shot of about thirty minutes which had hallucinated fans of slightly broke zombie films in
Do not cut (Kamera o tomeru na!)
by Japanese Shin'ichiro Ueda (available on DVD) .
We also find the same unexpected turnarounds (which should not be disclosed).
And the same funny gags.
It is however not the French remake strictly speaking, but rather a sequel.
Because the screenplay of Michel Hazanavicius' film does not ignore the immense success of this little film broke by Japanese students which brought them back a thousand times what it cost them.
It was on the strength of the success of this horror film shot live for social networks that the Japanese production of the film had the idea of having the French adaptation made by a film crew led by Romain Duris.
Such is the pitch of the Hazanavicius version.
Cultural shift, source of humor
So yes, the gory adventures and the comic springs are exactly the same in the two films.
But the French version has a second degree which comes from the fact that it refers to the first opus.
We see in particular the Japanese production in action headed by Yoshiko Takehara, star of Japanese TV, who already appeared in the first opus.
She resumes her character of Madame Matsuda, a supporting role which is there only for one thing: to guarantee the fidelity of the French adaptation to the original film.
And it works very well because she has an extraordinary physique, small, quite clownish, but very sure of herself, in the face of the anxiety and doubts of Romain Duris, who plays the director.
The exchanges with the French team, and the cultural shift that goes with it, are often irresistible.
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When Mrs. Matsuda wonders, without understanding what is being said, whether the adventures during filming are intentional or not, we want to answer her: no, all these improvisations are not intentional.
But yes, because they are there to make people laugh.
And we laugh!
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“Cut!
“: Bérénice Béjo and Romain Duris thought they would never succeed in playing the first scene
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“Cut!
": Michel Hazanavicius "does not really like zombie films" and yet his is successful
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Cannes Film Festival 2022
zombie
Michel Hazanavicius
Roman Duris
Horror movie
Japan