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In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal (Francis Girod) - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene (Andre Marcon) and Camile Dor (Fabienne Babe), a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements needed to make it. This doesn't stop them; they cobble together the financing and begin shooting anyway. The producer is very fond of the leading actress, and when she gets hooked on drugs for real in the course of shooting what he feels to be a farcical imitation of a film, he gives up his shares in the film and heads off for the back of beyond (Zanzibar) to lick his wounds. To add insult to injury, the film winds up being a critical and commercial success. -- Clarke Fountain
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Zanzibar
13 November 2008
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This is a rare film, I had heard about it but it was difficult to find it and so I was pleased to discover Kino. For anyone venturing into the movie business or wanting to be a producer it should have a particular resonance. Watching it on video with headphones and making allowances for such limitations, and then watching it again, I overcame my lack of enthusiasm for the characters and plot to a degree. There is something haunting and memorable about its self-pitying melancholy and sense of noble self-sacrifice. If you have the right kind of aesthetic sensibility and are interested in the film industry then there is probably something here for you to muse on, perhaps even some inspiration.
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