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How to Screw a Musical

By Jerry Johnson on March 3, 2010

And I thought it was impossible to fuck up a musical filmed in the streets of Paris. Not only is his subject ugly (and Honore claims to be shocked that audiences would find his protagonist unlikeable), he films them badly. Really, how do you render such gorgeous subjects as Louis Garrel and Clotilde Hesme so unappealing? He shoots the film in the same streets that Godard shot A Woman is a Woman, even attempting to copy shots from the original. We all suffer for the comparison.