Michel Hazanavicius, the great return of The class american

" Amazing, isn't it ? "would have said Desproges about The Class american Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette, little book which takes the dialogues full of" cult film ", book* enriched with a "critical apparatus" and illustrations of the second author, who disappeared in July 2016.

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Aired in 1993 on Canal+, visible free of charge on YouTube, The Great Diversion, The Class of the Us is a montage of replicas made by famous actors in films by Warner Bros, including westerns, from the 60's to 80 around an improbable story.

" It is theft and plagiarism... In this movie, the hero dies at the beginning, and journalists decide to investigate his last words, as in Citizen Kane," said Orson Wells. In the book, a drawing shows the director, an american with a cigar in his hand in front of his stately home.

The long-feature film ufos the director, The Artist, and his accomplice was never released in cinemas. It nonetheless benefits from a distribution of four stars : John Wayne, Dustin Hoffman, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Lauren Bacall, Angie Dickinson, ... Lined by Michel Hazanavicius himself, Serge Hazanavicius, his elder brother, but also Lionel Abelanski, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, ...

Little women, therefore, in exchange mostly male, or they appear in a bikini, maid, or even offering to show their ass. The President's Men Alan J. Pakula acts as a conductor wire. The replicas are fly : "The train of your insults roll on the rail of my indifference. "" Tribute or dessert ? ", wondering with a sense of humor Alain Véquaud and Raymond Fucre in the " historical literary ". And respond with : "A serious approach of laughter. "

In 1992, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette had already co-directed Derrick contre Superman, in which the famous inspector of the German were trying to save The Five, the old chain, founded by Silvio Berlusconi, in requesting the aid of heroes like captain Kirk from Star Trek or Navarro. "For me, this is perfect from A to Z," observes Alain Chabat. There are too many valves that I would have wanted to write. "

* The Class american Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette, scheduled for release on may 28, Allary Editions, classics, 160 pages, 10 euros.

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