"Claude et Claudette" is a British film from 4 years ago written by, directed by and starring Matthew Butler. He has done spoofs of period pieces, zombie movies, film noir and here he gives us his take on French black-and-white film like you'd expect it from Godard or Truffaut. The title already shows that it is basically not to be meant serious. Unfortunately, it is also not really funny as a comedy and the obvious parody moments are just more embarrassing than entertaining. The best thing is maybe that it runs for 7 minutes only, 6 without credits. However, I must say it is really time for Butler to find his own style and not just copy other people's works in "funny" way. Not recommended.
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Great homage of New Wave
malcolmrogersfilm18 February 2016
Continuing my look at Fizz and Ginger Films' work (after seeing their recent feature Two Down at a festival) I managed to find some of their early shorts, much to my delight.
Claude et Claudette is a fun, accessible homage to the French New Wave of the 1960's.
As with all of the films that this team produce, it's slick, well made, and you can visibly see them becoming stronger filmmakers.
Yes, it is silly, and strolls into parody but after reading why Matthew Butler and Tori Hart made it, to learn more of the whys and hows of their craft, I can see the work there. And when you see their more mature work, like Two Down, you can see that this exploration into different genre's of filmmaking has paid off.
There is another review here of the short, and I completely disagree with the writer. This was not made as a parody, but a gentle comedic homage from which the filmmakers wanted to learn. And in this day and age of everyone thinking they're a filmmaker and that every film is a treasure, it is inserting to see young filmmakers trying to better themselves.
Give it a watch if you can track it down!
Claude et Claudette is a fun, accessible homage to the French New Wave of the 1960's.
As with all of the films that this team produce, it's slick, well made, and you can visibly see them becoming stronger filmmakers.
Yes, it is silly, and strolls into parody but after reading why Matthew Butler and Tori Hart made it, to learn more of the whys and hows of their craft, I can see the work there. And when you see their more mature work, like Two Down, you can see that this exploration into different genre's of filmmaking has paid off.
There is another review here of the short, and I completely disagree with the writer. This was not made as a parody, but a gentle comedic homage from which the filmmakers wanted to learn. And in this day and age of everyone thinking they're a filmmaker and that every film is a treasure, it is inserting to see young filmmakers trying to better themselves.
Give it a watch if you can track it down!
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