Les clefs de bagnole
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Les clefs de bagnole |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Laurent Baffie |
| script | Laurent Baffie |
| production | Laurent Baffie |
| music | Ramon Pipin |
| camera | Philippe Vene |
| cut | Anne Lafarge |
| occupation | |
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Les clefs de bagnole ( Eng . The car keys ) is a French experimental comedy film directed by Laurent Baffie from 2003. As a film in the film, it tells of the making of the film Les clefs de bagnole .
action
Laurent Baffie wants to make a film. The plot - he loses his car keys and searches for them for 90 minutes only to find them in his left pocket at the end - does not convince numerous producers, especially since the film is said to cost 23 million francs. All well-known actors refuse to star in his film. In the end, Laurent shoots with Daniel Russo, which fits well, since the second main character in the script should be called Daniel anyway. Laurent and Daniel begin the action in Laurent's new apartment, which has a door that leads directly to the sea. Daniel is enthusiastic and now finds the 5,000 euros rent per month justified. An inserted survey of French people about what they think of a door to the sea in their own apartment leads to mixed reactions. According to the script, Laurent starts looking for his car keys, but doesn't find them by the sea or in a café around the corner. Two children pretend to have found the keys but run away after spending the day at the fair with Laurent and Daniel in exchange for the keys. A castle owner, to whom she only wanted to bring the shopping bags to her property, hired her as a piano transporter, gardener, window cleaner and vineyard worker. Daniel has had enough and Laurent, according to the script, shows a helicopter that takes them both to Paris. Only now does Daniel realize that he has been in Laurent's film for a while and is no longer surprised by the camera that accompanies him all the time. A discussion of the plot and power of the writer and director begins. The intervening survey of whether viewers would want to see a film with the title Die Autochasten produces rather negative results.
Back in Paris, Daniel is increasingly dissatisfied with the script that Laurent worked on for three years. He wants to stop shooting. In a melodramatic black and white sequence, Laurent convinced him to continue shooting. In the café around the corner, Laurent puts together the aspects that make a film successful. Children, animals and a love story turn out to be decisive factors. Daniel is thrilled that he appears in the love story, but the intended cuts in the script prevent him from actually being allowed to sleep with the attractive Lucie. He demands a re-shoot, which according to the age rating may only take place in the dark. Laurent brings kids into the film by conducting a poll in an elementary school on how to find his car keys. One of the suggestions is to get a dog, and indeed Laurent finds a dog at a dog shop who specializes in key finding. After a few hours, Laurent and David bring the dog back after it stole a total of 23 bowls from passers-by. A sequence in which the dog cries as a clay animation is seen as not very emotional by passers-by. After a quick meal that wasn't planned in the script, Laurent and David rush to Marineland to record a crowd-pleasing swimming sequence with dolphins. The producer appears shortly afterwards and tells Laurent that 500,000 euros will be needed to complete the film. Laurent inserts a friendly bank robbery in which the bank director is allowed to delete all bank robbery dead from the present script and pays one million euros out of gratitude. The survey of what to think of friendly bank robberies reveals a widespread rejection of robberies of any kind. Although it doesn't fit the plot, Laurent goes to buy cheese for his mother, with Gérard Depardieu serving as a cheese merchant. Laurent is delighted that he can advertise Depardieu as an actor. Laurent and Daniel's search continues via an advertisement on a cruise ship, where an old lady tells them about an omniscient hermit who can help Laurent find the keys. The hermit hunt leads into the mountains and is interrupted by an evening stop with Maxime Le Forestier at the campfire. Laurent is plagued by nightmares in which he is puffed up by his teacher for his miserable film. Daniel, in turn, dreams that he will be awarded for the worst acting performance at a film gala.
The next morning they both reach the hermit's cave. The hermit thinks that some look in the distance when the real thing is so close. The survey of the French about what the hermit might have meant brings pseudophilosophical answers. In his apartment, Laurent finally finds the keys in his left pocket. The film ends and Daniel admits that he is ashamed. The doorbell rings and people who have been involved in the film gradually appear. The teacher also rings the doorbell, slaps Laurent and angrily announces that he has received zero points.
production
Les clefs de bagnole was released in French cinemas on December 10, 2003, where it was seen by 177,366 people. In 2004 the film was released on DVD in France. It has not yet appeared in Germany (as of October 2013).
In the film, numerous well-known personalities from French film have a cameo appearance . The producers who initially reject Laurent's film are Claude Berri , Dominique Farrugia , Charles Gassot , Alain Sarde and Alain Terzian . In reality, Laurent Baffie was unable to find a producer for his film project for seven years and ended up producing the film himself.
The people who refuse to participate as actors in the film Laurent (in the credits entitled “Ceux qui ont dit qui pour me dire non”, dt. “Those who agreed to say no to me”) are (in the order their appearance):
Guillaume Canet , Marc Lavoine , Jean-Claude Brialy , Yvan Attal , Guy Bedos , Gérard Darmon , Élie Semoun , Dieudonné , Bernard Campan , Didier Bourdon , Pascal Légitimus , Bruno Putzulu , Dominique Besnehard , Jean-Pierre Darroussin , Antoine de Caunes , Jacques Gamblin , Enrico Macias , Kad Merad & Olivier Baroux , Édouard Baer , Florent Pagny , Édouard Baer, Bruno Solo & Thierry Frémont , Bernard Menez , Gérard Jugnot , Michaël Youn , Patrick Timsit , Vincent Lindon , Jean-Marc Barr , Vincent Pérez , Patrick Braoudé , Roschdy Zem , Michel Muller , Smaïn , Eddy Mitchell , Régis Laspalès , Michel Boujenah , Albert Dupontel , Éric Cantona , Jean Rochefort , Richard Berry , Samuel Le Bihan , Élise Larnicol , Maurice Barthélemy , Jean-Paul Rouve , Pascal Vincent , Marina Foïs , Lorànt Deutsch , Jean Dujardin , Mouss Diouf , Dave , Daniel Auteuil , Pierre Richard , Gérard Darmon, Pierre Arditi , Gad Elmaleh , Thierry Lhermitte , Jamel Debbouze and Gérard Lanvin .
criticism
Aden magazine found that the film had short rather than feature-length potential, but that those involved enjoyed making the absurd film so much that it was contagious. Le Monde noted that Laurent Baffie's cynicism only works on television, but appears sterile on the big screen. Première called the film "very funny". MCinéma.com found that the film was more reminiscent of a student prank , even if the goodwill and the attitude of "I don't care" are sympathetic.
Web links
- Les clefs de bagnole in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Les clefs de bagnole in the online film database