Je fais le mort

The film is about an out of work Parisian actor, Jean, who gets a job in a reenactment. Jean has to travel to somewhere in France. Jean gets caught up in the mystery behind the crime in itself with the locals. The actors stay at a local hotel together. The film is quite entertaining and different from other films. Jean played the dead victim and helped solve the crime. The cast is first rate and the art direction is beautiful with French scenery. If you love French films, you can include this in your collection.

Comédie infiltrates the reenacted double or triple murder in the small mountain town. Clues abound for the out-of-work actor hired to reenact the murdered parts pointing to anyone but the accused. It is rather funny and gets more and more hilarious as it goes along and the investigation by the actor proceeds. The judge is half miffed, half confused but so sweet and the local police inspector is suspect. A good time throughout trying to figure out who is the killer and why so many hide things.

Well, after nearly 700 reviews and 10 years writing them, i reach the conclusion that there are really two (living) actresses who moves me deeply : outside my homeland, Noomi Rapace is the one and as a French, Geraldine Nakache (and not Pailhas) wins the medal : she can be as gloomy as she can be funny ; she has a sweet voice and she is totally cute ! Here, she teams up with François Damiens and like his Belgium compatriots Poolvorde and De France, he has this little something that makes him simple, natural and engaging. So, reuniting this cast is the guaranteed formula for a great movie for me and they could have done whatever, i will appreciate the result in all cases.

But, here, the movie offers an original twist with the recruiting an actor to do criminal re-enactment. This is really a great discovery to play with as the essence of acting is indeed to take place of somebody else. Sure, with this, you can put needful insight for an investigation and the movie really lives on with that. As the game that inspired my title, the audience is caught with solving the crime and identifying the murderer !

The definitive excellent inspiration was to choose a splendid and natural location in the high mountains and in addition at the best season (winter). So, the wood building, the snow, the pines are a beautiful change from the usual shooting of Paris and country that french cinema keeps delivering.

Thanks for everyone (and especially Geraldine) involved in making this movie a such great gift for this Christmas 2013 !