Taking its title from a popular 1960s dance craze, this digital video comedy concerns the exploits of a particularly odd fictional talk-show host, portrayed by real-life French talk-show sensation Edouard Baer. Baer -- who also directed and co-wrote the film -- plays a sarcastic TV personality who decides to gather together the panel members from his live show before they shoot the program so that they have a chance to rehearse. To this end, the absurd group -- including a lawyer, a transvestite, and a grown woman who acts like a child -- rents a villa for a month. It doesn't take long for resentment to fester among the motley crew.
Acting
Baer weaponizing his actual talk show persona.
Writing
Self-aware jabs at French media culture.
Director
Édouard Baer
Édouard Baer
Edouard
Philippe Laudenbach
Jacky
Rosine Favey
Toune, Edouard's mother
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Gilles
Jean-Michel Lahmi
Jean-Mi
Joseph Malerba
Jo
Sonia Mankaï
Karima
Patrick Mille
Milou
Isabelle Nanty
Mathilda
François Rollin
Dr. Drain
Vincent Desagnat
Edouard's Fan
Atmen Kelif
Momo (uncredited)
Ariel Wizman
Rocker (uncredited)
Roland Menou
Roland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a 1960s dance craze, but the film itself is pure 2000s DV guerrilla filmmaking.
Baer was already huge on French radio and TV; this is him parodying his own fame before it was cool.
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