The old adage says: “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” That’s a sentiment that Jean-Christophe Meurisse takes fully to heart in his latest comedy, which makes such a screeching gear change towards the end into a grimly dark home straight that the chances of taking everyone with him are virtually nil.
Up until that point, there’s quite a lot for most people to enjoy about this absurdist romp, which closed Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight three years after Bloody Oranges showed there out of competition. The set-up is engagingly daft and arrived at in shaggy dog fashion as we hear about crack detective Zavatta (Anthony Paliotti) from a pair of pathologists as they work on a body. In fact, Zavatta is just one part of a large ensemble cast in a narrative that is as much about trimmings as it is the meat of the story.
Up until that point, there’s quite a lot for most people to enjoy about this absurdist romp, which closed Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight three years after Bloody Oranges showed there out of competition. The set-up is engagingly daft and arrived at in shaggy dog fashion as we hear about crack detective Zavatta (Anthony Paliotti) from a pair of pathologists as they work on a body. In fact, Zavatta is just one part of a large ensemble cast in a narrative that is as much about trimmings as it is the meat of the story.
- 6/1/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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