Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Le Bunker de la Derniere Rafale

Young rogues, Jeunet and Caro, still do not romanticize the old movie and yet sentimental retro style, but fun and mercilessly mocked the fact that most of all love. The meaning of what is happening in the bunker is captured approximately. In the concrete catacombs sit some military, some characteristics similar to the Nazis: shape, stripes on the collar, although in fact it is the characters are more universal. They live in a cave a few ordinary soldiers, a couple of severe type, resembling the SS, a surgeon, a sadist and a man in a wheelchair - perhaps the chief. Plot assembled from several events: catching beetles to kill them current, human experimentation, foray outside the asylum, anxiety, and a mysterious breakdown that leads to what is clearly a very important counter starts the countdown. In the bunker chaos reigns. All of each other for some reason killed, sirens wailing, ominous clouds rushing over the concrete tower, the heroes of the ominous shadows under the clanking, screeching and the sound of rushing through the narrow corridors. Among them, the authors themselves Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Counter returns to its original position. Everything calms down. Tape ends. If you are wanted, it can be deduced from the "Bunker" anti-militarist idea. That, he says, as young writers see the absurd existence of clandestine people, residing in a state of perpetual war. But most likely, the ideology excited Jeunet and Caro are very few. They arranged for himself kinomanskoe fun, reproducing the style of military cinema-thirties forties, a cheap parody of fantasy, with a gentle cynicism of making fun of the great and powerful German expressionists …
Spectacular contrasting frames. Predominant lower light. Sharp shadows. Grotesque distorted faces. Rigorous geometric compositions. Installation of general plans, details and portraits - as in the comic. And, of course, is here apparent passion for the rusty pipes, rough walls, old-fashioned typewriter, every kind of stupid bulb cracked and scratched dial, ridiculous metal parts, mechanisms and devices, supposedly very important, but in fact, absolutely meaningless. Dar create and show things from Jeunet and Caro quite unique. They invent a fantasy world made up of junk that was lying under his feet, fused from the defective frames and scraps of old tapes. Later, they added to this touching sentimental tone, taken from a puppet Puppet Show, from an old circus tent naive and pre-war films of the French "poetic realism". But in the low-budget exercise, young people, to cast more than hope (dream come), just have fun styling.

Directors : Julian Jarrold, Marc Caro
Run time: 26 min