“Plastic Guns”, interview with director Jean-Christophe Meurisse

After “Apnée” at the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2016 and “Bloody Oranges”  at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, Jean-Christophe Meurisse is back in Cannes with “Plastic Guns” at the Directors Fortnight 2024.

Following “the exchange of person” device, Jean-Christophe Meurisse directs a surrealistic comedy mixing humour and horror about a man in his forties mistaken for a brutal murderer by the police.

“Cinema is here, I think, to show what cruelty and evil are. I stretch things out a bit “ says Jean-Christophe Meurisse, clarifying that the film is even more cruel and real as it is mixed with comedic and surrealistic moments.

Rehearsal was key for the actors and for the director who comes from a theater background and owes it all to preparation in order to allow improvisation.

The four leading actors and actresses, Delphine Baril, Charlotte Laemmel, Laurent Stocker, and Gaëtan Peau, rehearsed with Jean-Christophe Meurisse for a long time.

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