Final Cut | Festival films

Final Cut

MFF Cannes
Official Selection
2022

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

In an abandoned building, a low-budget zombie horror film is falling apart on set. The abusive director is already pushing the cast and crew to the brink with his obnoxious behavior when he reveals his plan to inject energy and excitement into the project: unlocking a real-life ancient zombie curse. In a frenetic one-shot where body parts and fluids are flying, the actors fight the undead and their director for their lives before the film comes to a shocking conclusion and the credits roll...but is that the whole story? Academy Award–winning writer-director Michel Hazanavicius brings one of the most innovative, joyful, and funniest love letters to film and filmmaking you’ll ever see. Adapted from the cult Japanese box office hit One Cut of The Dead by Shinichiro Ueda.

Michel Hazanavicius

Academy Award®-winning director, screenwriter and producer Michael Hazanavicius is best known for his 2011 black-and-white, comedy-drama film The Artist, which won five Academy Awards® in 2012, including Best Picture and Best Director. Hazanavicius’ previous directing credits also include: The Lost Prince, starring Omar Sy and Bérénice Bejo; Redoubtable, starring Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin and Bérénice Bejo; The Search for Warner Bros. Pictures, also starring Bérénice Bejo and Annette Bening, as well as the French spy parody box office hit OSS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies and its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio. His most recent projects include the 2022 Cannes Film Festival opening night film Final Cut, as well as the World War II drama, La plus précieuse des marchandises adapted from the original novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg.

Wtach films by Michael Hazanavicius Redoubtable and The Serach on Edisonline.

Directed by
Michel Hazanavicius
Written by
Michel Hazanavicius
Edited by
Mickael Dumontier
Cinematography
Jonathan Ricquebourg
Sound by
Selim Azzazi, Ken Yasumoto, Jean Minondo
Music by
Alexandre Desplat
Starring
Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Sébastien Chassagne

Original title
Z (comme Z)
English title
Final Cut
Year
2022
Country
France, UK, Japan
Language
FR, JP
Subtitles
CZ
Running time
110 min
Genre
Horror movie, Comedy
Age rating
15+
Release date
27. 10. 2022

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Le Parisien

★★★★★ "An incredible declaration of love for cinema"

The Times

★★★★ "Ingenious, funny and surprisingly touching."

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