While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
Production
Junkyard sets so detailed you'll pause to inventory the trash.
Direction
Jeunet's signature whimsy cranked to eleven, every frame a diorama.
Practical Effects
Human cannonball? All practical. No CGI excuses here.
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Dany Boon
Bazil
Dominique Pinon
Fracasse
André Dussollier
Nicolas Thibault De Fenouillet
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Placard
Julie Ferrier
Rubber Kid
Yolande Moreau
Tambouille
Michel Crémadès
Petit Pierre
Nicolas Marié
François Marconi
Omar Sy
Remington
Marie-Julie Baup
Calculette
Philippe Girard
Gravier
Thérèse Roussel
Old Lady in Bed
Alix Poisson
Blue Train Hostess
Stéphanie Gesnel
Lewd Technician's Partner
Juliette Armanet
Subway Singer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'human cannonball' gag required 67 takes; Dany Boon eventually did it himself after the stunt double kept overshooting the landing pad.
Jeunet constructed the junkyard set from actual Parisian landfill during the 2005 garbage strikes, making it a time-capsule of discarded French consumerism.
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