The idea of the film
According to Tarek Boudali, the basic idea of the film is the question that everyone has asked at one point or another: what would I do if I had thirty days to live? “I wanted to derive a comedy from the answer, with the fact that the condemned character realizes that he is no longer condemned as a comedy detonator … However, in the meantime, he had to do crazy things, not having nothing more to lose, and making it impossible for him to sto …
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Play as a cop
Tarek Boudali prepared for his role by spending time with the police; he notably followed a day service and another at night with the anti-crime brigade (BAC). “It’s not much, but it leaves time to see how it goes … and to experience things! During the day, the chef points out two pickpockets to me. How does he know that? Because of their gait, their positioning, their attitude, their looks… And he decides to follow them on foot.
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Chase with real cops
For the purposes of the film, Tarek Boudali immersed himself with a team from the BAC, patrolling for hours in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, especially at night. The director tells an anecdote on this subject: “We are two cars and a motorcycle. The cars are unmarked Uber style: a policeman at the wheel, no one in the front passenger seat, and two others behind. A policewoman points out a suspicious Twingo with three…
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