Part film, part theater, part reality television… Phoenix Atala’s Season 1 episode 2 examines its own production process step by step, as it is being created in front of the audience. The hilarious and thoughtful work questions the concepts of mass media, Big Brother, and the boundaries of reality and fiction—while offering a delightful critique of social norms and structures.
Known to New York audiences for his work with French performance group Grand Magasin, Phoenix Atala is a renoun and critically acclaimed theatrical director in Europe who tries his hand at cinema.
For this production the cast, a mix of french celebrities and amateurs, obsessively describe what’s happening on the screen.
The movie is an eye opening revelation for who is new to the mechanism behind cinema production, and an entertaining witty and playful UFO for who works in the industry.
As orange: Pascale Murtin, Christophe Salengro, Aurélia Petit
As pink: Virginie Petit, Danièle Colomine, Pascale Murtin
As Yellow: Joseph Dahan, Christophe Arrot, Danièle Colomine
As blue: Marc Bruckert, Michel Phelippeau
As brown: Etienne Charry, Virginie Petit, Pascale Murtin
As red: Marc Bruckert, François Hiffler
Executive Producer GRAND MAGASIN/ 34567FILMS
Coproduction GRAND MAGASIN / 34567FILMS/Le Consortium, Dijon /
Dubbelspel (30cc & STUK Kunstencentrum) /
MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine / Les Spectacles vivants –
Centre Pompidou With the help of
Ministry of Culture and Communication (DICREAM)
With the support of Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
and Canal + Short Program Unit
Objectif Cinema (5/8/2010) - "With (faux) naïveté, malice and finesse, Phoenix Atala’s film questions language" Nicolas Villodre Mouvement (12/15/2009) - "fiction met reality, with no possible return back" Magali Lesauvage Telerama (5/3/2008) - "Unless it’s not your style of humor, you’ll very quickly be smiling out of delightful disbelief." Cathy Blisson Inrockuptibles (3/11/2008) - "An obvious taste for deconstruction and parodic irony,
which are particularly efficient here."Hugues le Tanneur Cahier du Cinema (9/15/2007) - "A mockery of cinematic conventions"Ch.G
"A feminist use of split-screen"Ch.G