A story as hilarious as it is sharp! Canal+ is launching a new tradition this Wednesday, Christmas Day, “the Christmas bauble film”. “We were wondering which way to take the Christmas film, which is a hyper-codified thing. We wanted to do it in our own way with the side step that characterizes us and without respecting any code. This is how this idea of crossing genres and creating this new box was born,” explains Lyes Boudechiche, director of Canal+ programs, during a virtual press conference. And to promise: “The Christmas film is highly codified, we will try to play with the codes each time in a different way. » On the Christmas 2024 menu for the encrypted channel, Deadly raclettea horror comedy in the world of porn broadcast this Wednesday at 10:10 p.m. A little television UFO completely frosted just the way we like them!
An intimacy coordinator on the set of an X-rated movie
It all begins when the heir to an X-rated film company (Bertrand Usclat, the indescribable creator of Broute) decides to hire Solange, an intimacy coordinator also trained in eco-responsible filming, for his new production, called Tire-fesses. (Bérangère McNeese, seen in HPI in the role of Daphné Forestier). “We play with a function, but it is a function that we respect and whose usefulness we recognize on a set,” specifies the producer of the program Eric Laroche.
We thus follow the joyful troupe that she accompanies to shoot an X-rated film in a Savoyard chalet. “I treated the whole shooting part of the film as if it were a short film. It turns out that it’s an The Visitor of the futurewho admits that “porn allows you to create quite enjoyable comedy situations”.
A clever mix of comedy and slash movie
“On the set, there was an intimacy coordinator who choreographed the X scenes. It had to remain funny, it was necessary that when the actors and actresses got up, we couldn’t see their bodies. It was more technical than the gore scenes! When they are on the sofa, the cushions have been made so that there is no physical contact between the actors. I learned a lot about this profession,” explains the director.
“The first challenge was to create this Christmas atmosphere while we filmed in the Paris region in June,” remembers the producer. Unfortunately, when a snowstorm breaks out and the wifi is down, the little troop is unaware that a terrible danger threatens to tear them to pieces. The second was finding the balance between comedy and slash movie: “I’m as much a fan of comedy as I am of horror films, as I am of horror comedies. I know one can help the other. it was a pleasure to combine the two,” confides the director.
This clever mix of jokes and thrills is brilliantly carried by “a troupe which still has the vocation to do lots of things on Canal”, announces Lyes Boudechiche. Esteban Vial (Les Indociles) is unbeatable as a “porn actor, very naive, who doesn’t have the light on all floors”, as he sums it up, Fred Testot delivers a Homeric performance as a hyper-uneasy neighbor, Jessé Rémond-Lacroix is impeccable in HMC, Faustine Koziel is amazing as an “X-rated film actress who is also an author” while Antoine Gouy is hilarious as an X-rated film director, who has desires author, “the Truffaut of the ass”, he laughs.
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