Michel Rocas, the Z Series’ king

Michel Rocas, the Z Series’ king

Documentary

52’, 2005 France

Directed by Nicolas Castro and Laurent Préyale

"No Grisbi in the basement" : "Here is without a doubt the first but also the last film by Mr. Rocas, who should with all due haste get a job in plumbing or the clothing industry" JEAN-LUC DARMANGEAT, Le Figaro

"A colt for Tortilla" : "Can anyone explain why the young first-time actor playing the hero, Tortilla, changes in the middle of the film ? The hidalgo who replaces him offers a confused, hard-to-understand explanation due to his thick Spanish accent. At the end, we are once again with the italian actor who casually eats spaghetti vongolle while mercenaries rape his fiancé and sack the town." SÉBASTIEN BALADIE, Le Canard Enchaîné

"The Sadistic Nurse" : "A masterful horror film. The nurse, keep in mind that Rocas’ mother was a nurse, chases her charges with a giant needle. She ties them up with CROCS DE BOUCHER to inject them. Now keep in mind that Rocas’ father was a butcher. The influence of the superego combines here with an inversed Oediple complex and a classic infant masturbation syndrome as posited by Freud in his essays on sexual theory." GÉRARD MENVUSA, Les Cahiers du Cinéma

"Fela, always greedy never dishonest, or one doesn’t speack with a full mouth" : "The scene where Fela cites Shopenhauer while going about her work (there must be some special effect unless Claudine Beccarie, the actrice who generously plays Fela is a ventriloquist) has a place in the annals, no pun intended, of cinema." MICHEL CAEN, l’Organe

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[1] Rights : worldwide

[2] Language : french

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