Eric Toledano and Pio Marmaï return with us to the filming of the opening scene of “A Difficult Year”: this Black Friday sequence where the directors wanted “organized chaos in dance”.
An opening scene in more than one way. With a curtain rise… metallic. That of the store which, like all the others at the end of November, slashes prices on the occasion of Black Friday, causing images of chaos seen and reviewed on social networks.
And who inspired Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache for their new film, A Difficult Year.
On the bottom of “Waltz in a thousand beats”, one of Jacques Brel’s most beautiful songs, Pio Marmaï and a few extras (including stuntmen) fight and fall in slow motion. To the great dismay of the activists led by Cactus (Noémie Merlant), who had tried to prevent them from entering to participate in what they describe as a symbol of overconsumption.
While at the preview organized as part of the AlloCiné Club, Eric Toledano and Pio Marmaï returned, at our microphone, to the filming of this spectacular scene. The actor tells us that, due to lack of an establishment having accepted for image reasons, a shopping center had to be recreated.
Put this organized chaos into dance
And the director, alongside his accomplice Olivier Nakache, talks to us about their way of “put this organized chaos into dance”, and this motif (dance), which comes up regularly in their cinema. From Intouchables to Hors norms, including the final scene of A Difficult Year.
Which comes full circle with a waltz tune, echoing the opening scene of their eighth feature film to be seen in cinemas since October 18.