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A dead body crashes a sitcom shoot and nobody's acting.
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Sitcom, A Movie (1999)

meta-mayhemFrench chaossitcom-gone-wrong

Overview

Comedy

In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of the day is not going to go as planned at all.

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Content warning

Standout Aspects

Direction

Hazanavicius weaponizes sitcom conventions against you.

Writing

Dialogue that sounds improvised, probably wasn't.

Acting

Yvan Attal's spiral from smug to desperate.

Best for:Solo: Late night when you hate laugh tracks but love cringe.·Friends: With your most pretentious film friend who claims to love French cinema.
Heads up:Disturbing: The corpse stays on screen longer than comfortable.·Sexual Content: Awkward morning-after nudity played for dark laughs.
Michel Hazanavicius

Director

Michel Hazanavicius

ReleasedJun 2, 1999
Runtime1h 37m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensitymedium
Tonedark
Feellight
StudioCanal
CNC

Top Cast

Yvan Attal

Yvan Attal

Eric

Karin Viard

Karin Viard

Lola

Mathieu Demy

Mathieu Demy

Benoît

Serge Hazanavicius

Serge Hazanavicius

Fred

Alain Chabat

Alain Chabat

Étienne

Léa Drucker

Léa Drucker

Gilda

Élodie Navarre

Élodie Navarre

Isabelle

Lionel Abelanski

Lionel Abelanski

Christophe

Thibault de Montalembert

Thibault de Montalembert

Marc

Nathalie Levy-Lang

Nathalie Levy-Lang

Nathalie

Zinedine Soualem

Zinedine Soualem

Areski

Idit Cebula

Idit Cebula

Frédérique

Jean-Marie Winling

Jean-Marie Winling

Guichard

Natacha Lindinger

Natacha Lindinger

Carla

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Made during France's late-'90s obsession with deconstructing American pop culture—this is Hazanavicius's thesis before The Artist.

Trivia

The sitcom-within-the-film's title translates literally to 'The Guys'—Hazanavicius allegedly shot three fake episodes just to get the tone wrong-right.

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