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Prenez vos places / Places Everyone! - Film Review
August 24th 2006 05:26
Of course, I may be biased since I was the screenwriter for this film. A review might be just slightly biased. For example:
'More than anything, Prenez vos places has incredibly witty writing, like a script that was drizzled down from the highest tiers of Cloud City onto 24K gold leaf paper. The screenwriter should receive accolades for his beautiful timing, his 11 dimensional characters and his Godard-meets-Seinfeld dialogue.'
See? There's no objective viewpoint on this one. You'll just have to sift through my bullshit.
I wrote this script as a collaboration with les Freres Thomas-Dupuis, a producer and director pair that I met in Montreal. Certainly, I didn't think that the film would be opening at the Montreal International Film Festival, and I never would have imagined that we would have won funding from Telefilm Canada.
No, I was sure that we'd have a laugh, throw back a few beers and use a camcorder to shoot a couple kick-to-the-groin type gags.
Is it autobiographical? No, I don't think so... I hope not, anyway. We put Beeno and Nick through a lot of hoops and he slap them around like rag dolls.
We had no money to make this film, so the humour is all situational. Beeno can't get a date to save his life, and, from our extensive rejection histories, we dragged him through our accumulated strikeouts. Nick is a bubbling pot of suppressed anger and frustration, and we let him simmer.
It's not Almodovar, but I think Prenez vos places is a great potential movie... Les Freres showed what they could pull off with no budget, and we still have a movie that looks great and makes us laugh. There were a couple of scenes, particularly at the end, that make Montreal look so fresh and vibrant, despite the lack of extras.
Prenez vos places is the perfect film to sit through in winter, when the snow has piled up outside your door and the wind comes howling on your shingles... it's a movie that feels like July, its about naive love and rock-hard friendship and reflects on the fragility of those things we foolishly think will last forever. Nothing is permanent, except the screenplay. Respect!
* these images were taken from the Prenez vos places webpage and are used here to support critical commentary on the film.
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