Petite Fleur: What is this film in which Melville Pupo is portrayed as the deadliest of the year?

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Jose, an Argentine who has just moved to France to live with his partner and daughter, meets his neighbor. When they listen to the jazz play Petite Fleur, which is captivated by the impulse, he kills his new friend. However, the next day, to Jose’s surprise, his neighbor is healthier than ever. He still decides to kill her. Jose then develops a strange routine: he takes care of the child and the house, tries to save the marriage … and kills the neighbor.

3 things you need to know

• Petite fleur, the title of which echoes Syden Beshet’s famous jazz work, is an adaptation of a novel by Argentine author, Ios Havillo, Petite Fleur (Never Dying) published by Editions Denoël. “While working on the adaptation of the novel, I found that the tone and story, especially the fantastic elements of the narrative, were reminiscent of the weirdness of films made by South American directors like Raul Ruiz or Hugo Santiago in France. . So I wrote thinking about France“, Points out the Argentine director Santiago Miter, who shot his camera in France for this film, which will be screened this Wednesday, June 8, 2022.

• In addition to his poster, which sets the tone, the idea was to shoot fun and graphic violence … For the murder scene, Santiago Mitter tried to invent several ways of killing, but also to make these moments funny. , As he explains. In the press kit. “These moments had to be both graphic and funny, that they were a kind of absurd and funny leitmotif throughout the film. They have a cartoon side to them, especially how Melville plays them, without any pain. It was not easy to do, it involved a lot of technique, effects and props, but I am happy with that.“

The cinema will be released on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.