A movie within the movie, within the movie...
At first it was supposed to be titled Z - like Zombies - but the idea was abandoned because the meaning Z related to Russian army in Ukraine war, the atrocities...So they changed the title. It is brilliant, intelligent, unusual, adapted from a short movie, but for me it was a bit too complex to follow. I was unable to summarize it to myself. The movie takes place in an abandoned gigantic movie theater complex facility, the perfect setting for a film about movies making. As DAWN OF THE DEAD took place in a gigantic commercial center, the perfect setting for a horror film ciriticizing the consumerism American way of life. It is a comedy but, I repeat, worth for the screenplay. It is only a bit too confused for someone like myself. The connection to Russia is certianly not Z, for the reasons explained above, but the movie within the movie evokes the Russian Matryoshka wooden dolls, dolls within dolls.... And strangely, Romain Duris played in LES POUPEES RUSSES - Russian Dolls - back in 2005.
Review of Final Cut
