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In Italy ,there are the Taviani bros,in France the Prévert bros ,in the USA
the Coen bros !There's room for brothers in the movie business, says Jacques Soeur (=Sister) to his sibling Charlie !
They have been sending their "invaluable " screenplay for months to countless producers ,to no avail ;so when the last producer turns their offer down ,they blackmail him : they film him with his mistress in a hotel room and threaten him: the video cassette could be sent to his wife and her wealthy dad ,or ,worse,shown on internet.
Denys Podalydès actually often works with his brother Bruno and one can wonder why they do not use real siblings in the film ;but he does not matter for Podalydès and José Garcia (you may remember his feat in " Harry Un Ami Qui Vous Veut Du Bien " ) are tremendous actors, with riotously funny facial expressions.....
......providing they are given a decent screenplay and a true director!and it's not good news for that matter ; the story is so desultory it's often hard to catch up with : a jumble ;directing leaves the actors to their own devices ,some of whom outrageously overplay (Jackie Berroyer rapidly gets on your nerves) or are totally wasted (Daniel Emilfork who has the most sinister-looking face in the French cinema but almost always chooses the wrong flicks).
The heroes' screenplay ,although far-fetched to a fault ,should have filmed instead of this slapstick : a girl who is crying in the rain at the graveyard attends her boyfriend 's funeral : she has him exhumed and all his organs but the heart (the title is "the heartless man" )are given to the hospitals ;afterwards,the girl goes in search of the people who receive the lungs ,the kidneys ,the liver,etc This might have been a gruesome comedy full of black humor.
Sorry ,Sister bros,but it does make it!
They have been sending their "invaluable " screenplay for months to countless producers ,to no avail ;so when the last producer turns their offer down ,they blackmail him : they film him with his mistress in a hotel room and threaten him: the video cassette could be sent to his wife and her wealthy dad ,or ,worse,shown on internet.
Denys Podalydès actually often works with his brother Bruno and one can wonder why they do not use real siblings in the film ;but he does not matter for Podalydès and José Garcia (you may remember his feat in " Harry Un Ami Qui Vous Veut Du Bien " ) are tremendous actors, with riotously funny facial expressions.....
......providing they are given a decent screenplay and a true director!and it's not good news for that matter ; the story is so desultory it's often hard to catch up with : a jumble ;directing leaves the actors to their own devices ,some of whom outrageously overplay (Jackie Berroyer rapidly gets on your nerves) or are totally wasted (Daniel Emilfork who has the most sinister-looking face in the French cinema but almost always chooses the wrong flicks).
The heroes' screenplay ,although far-fetched to a fault ,should have filmed instead of this slapstick : a girl who is crying in the rain at the graveyard attends her boyfriend 's funeral : she has him exhumed and all his organs but the heart (the title is "the heartless man" )are given to the hospitals ;afterwards,the girl goes in search of the people who receive the lungs ,the kidneys ,the liver,etc This might have been a gruesome comedy full of black humor.
Sorry ,Sister bros,but it does make it!
- dbdumonteil
- Dec 5, 2019
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