Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
Romain Duris
Rémi / Higurashi
Bérénice Bejo
Nadia / Natsumi
Grégory Gadebois
Philippe / Hosoda
Finnegan Oldfield
Raphaël / Ken
Matilda Lutz
Ava / Chinatsu
Raphaël Quenard
Jonathan / Akira
Luàna Bajrami
Johanna
Sébastien Chassagne
Armel / Yamakoshi
Lyes Salem
Mounir
Simone Hazanavicius
Romy
Agnès Hurstel
Laura
Charlie Dupont
Fredo
Raïka Hazanavicius
Manon
Jean-Pascal Zadi
Fatih
Lionel Cecilio
L'accessoiriste
Marie Petiot
Iris
Léa Millet
Sophie
Yvon Martin
Gaby
Yumi Narita
L'interprète
Donguri
Madame Matsuda
Florence Janas
Mélanie
Edwina Zajdermann
Juju
Marie Zabukovec
La maman
Quentin Dupieux
Director
Director, Writer
Michel Hazanavicius
Original Film Writer
Shinichiro Ueda
Original Film Writer
Ryoichi Wada
January 2, 2024
6
This could have been quite a funny spoof on all things zombie, if only it were just twenty minutes or so shorter! It all centres around a production team making a (very) cheap and cheerful film full of fake limbs, tomato ketchup and singularly bad acting. Acting rivalries and romantic affairs are causing director "Rémi" (Romain Duris) no end of problems as the money and time start running out. Just when things look like they could get little worse, it appears that they have managed to awaken a few "real" zombies and so things become seriously perilous (and messy) for all concerned. The latter part of the movie seems to have two functions - to explain just why the first half hour was so terrible and to then suggest that with some Japanese creative intervention - they all take on Japanese names and get some of their funding - the film gets magically better. Sadly, it labours that joke just once too often. The parody elements run out of steam and it becomes rather a puerile and unfunny slapstick-style enterprise with some bad actors portraying other truly bad actors. The last ten minutes of continuous filming of their filming of the fight against the axe-wielding undead is still quite funny, but by then I was starting to shift in my chair. It does have it's funny moments - but just nowhere near enough of them.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
French
Budget:
$4,300,000.00
Revenue:
$2,046,233.00