Foutaises
1989 Fantasy / Comedy   
 
Credits
  • Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Script: Bruno Delbonnel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Photo: Jean Poisson
  • Music: Carlos D'Alessio
  • Cast: Dominique Pinon, Chick Ortega, Marie-Laure Dougnac
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 9 min
  • Aka: Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
 
 
 
Summary
A man enumerates all the things he likes and dislikes, including eating eggs whole and plucking nasal hair (ouch!).

Review
This little gem of cinematic surrealism from Jean-Pierre Jeunet is of course now immediately recognisable as a precursor for his subsequent films, such as Delicatessen and Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelié Poulain.  Jeunet’s distinctive visual style, particularly his unique way of drawing us into the fantasy world of his film’s main character, is very much in evidence.  The film’s opening sequence, where the camera pans along a shelf in a butcher’s shop, instantly reminds us of Delicatessen, the film which Jeunet went on to make with Marc Caro.   Another link with that film is its main actor, Dominique Pinon, whose rubber face goes through the most extraordinary contortions in the course of this film.

© James Travers 2002


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