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Weird comings and goings in a mansion run by two old asian buddhists.
Strange comings and goings in a boarding house kept by two old Buddhist Asian women: the recalcitrant cook chats up the idle chamber maid by going to fetch crabs in the attic; a hunted man, after sensual exchanges with a bare chested boy, ends up upstairs and dies; a motionless female client unsettles, by her silence, the habits of the household who dance before her…
Claude Mouriéras likes to take liberties with the works he adapts for the screen. Of Mort de rire, the wacky and cynical show by the duo Monnier-Duroure, there remain only a few swinging floor dances, burlesque lifts, and a drawn-out atmosphere where boredom is a stylistic device. However, while the film may appear far removed from the show, each image is an embryo of a story; a virtual narration slips in between each shot, and the short film, just like the show, moves forward by associations of gestural ideas. Mort de rire was the last choreography that Mathilde Monnier and Jean-François Duroure composed together. Since then, each has their own company.
Source : Patrick Bossatti
