Coming home late at night after catching up with friends,I began looking for a French film to watch for the ICM viewing challenge. Finding his Film Noir's Le septième juré and Let's Not Get Angry (plus,non-Noir Man in the Trunk ) to be excellent, stylish works, dbdumonteil review of Georges Lautner's Adult film industry Comedy (!) Made it sound like the perfect night cap.
View on the film:
Not featuring any showing of flesh until 50 mins,nor a single sex scene, director Georges Lautner & cinematographer Maurice Fellous go behind the green door with a cheeky,but not raunchy humour, with Lautner hilariously riffing on the auteur ambitions of François (a reference to someone?) with a cringing awkwardness on holding auditions for naked ladies, and joyful slap-stick set-pieces over François's attempts to stop his girlfriend from turning up in a skin flick. Working with Lautner a number of times, the screenplay by Francis Veber has a wickedly sly black comedy streak aimed towards the film industry,where producers sand down François's original plans for a Thriller, to the point where it has changed to a hardcore sex flick. Displaying a mischievous chemistry with Pierre Richard's great, grasping at straws François, Miou-Miou hits Christine's swift punch-lines over her Adult star auditions,as Christine and François see it all.
View on the film:
Not featuring any showing of flesh until 50 mins,nor a single sex scene, director Georges Lautner & cinematographer Maurice Fellous go behind the green door with a cheeky,but not raunchy humour, with Lautner hilariously riffing on the auteur ambitions of François (a reference to someone?) with a cringing awkwardness on holding auditions for naked ladies, and joyful slap-stick set-pieces over François's attempts to stop his girlfriend from turning up in a skin flick. Working with Lautner a number of times, the screenplay by Francis Veber has a wickedly sly black comedy streak aimed towards the film industry,where producers sand down François's original plans for a Thriller, to the point where it has changed to a hardcore sex flick. Displaying a mischievous chemistry with Pierre Richard's great, grasping at straws François, Miou-Miou hits Christine's swift punch-lines over her Adult star auditions,as Christine and François see it all.