It’s All Gone: A Road Movie with a Punk Spirit to See at the Cinema

What is it about?

In a town in northern France, Thomas, a freelancer for a local newspaper, has to paint a portrait of Uses, an atypical musician and former municipal election candidate. As the two men get to know each other, they discover Jojo’s lifeless body. But he comes back to life…

Libertarian and political fantasy

8th feature film by director and screenwriter Sebastien Betbeder. After Marie et les naufragés with Vimala Pons or Le Voyage au Groenland with Thomas Shimeka, the filmmaker finds the latter again for a new comedy that promises to be witty and faithful.

With this starting point of talking about a person caught up in politics, alongside the music, Tout fout le camp has the common thread of primarily talking about people who are less prominent in cinema. “It was important for me to show these cast aside beings and this marginality, which I imagined in life as in cinema, as a power that deserves attention, respect and admiration.”, explains Sébastien Betbeder in the press kit.

The director declares the spirit of punk and changing the codes of the bourgeoisie: “If the film resonates with the gloomy atmosphere of recent years, it should do better to assert the possibility of counter-power, collective hope, excess and defiance. In the prism of comedy, it tackles several social issues, e.g “Treachery on the left, abandonment of the working class, shift of thinking to the right, police violence.”.”

Lots of pointers…

Sébastien Betbeder had several influences in mind for Tout Fout le Camp. First, two films by Alain Cavaliere, Le Plein de super”For the strength of the collective” and a strange journey “For the clear online history and the incredible emotion that its discovery evoked in me“. He also quotes Jacques Rivette, in particular Le Pont du Nord and Haut bas fragile.Designed for these characters in desolate Paris, where everything becomes possible and which gives birth to the game.” The director wanted to mix these cinephile references with memories of more popular cinema, which he is also very attached to, such as 1980s comedies like Les Compères.

I thought of movies like Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste or Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy.

As for the zombie figure he summons with the Jojo character, he went to paint on Gore Cinema.With its dirty and amateur aspect. I like the awkward humor and attraction/repulsion it can cause. I happily delved into my teenage memories and thought of movies like Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste or Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy. I wanted to find that DIY aesthetic.”

The cast of the film is diverse, with original comedy faces such as Thomas Shimeka, but also the singer Use (Nicolas Belvallet), whose first role in a feature film, or the actor Jonathan Capdeviel, seen mainly on stage and recently released in Jerk. By Giselle Wien.

Tout fout le camp, written and directed by Sébastien Batbeder, hits theaters this Wednesday.