The failure of James Huth's Hellphone to find much of an audience outside of its native France remains more than a little baffling to me. While vastly inferior teen horror comedies such as Night of The Living Dorks have received widespread festival play and DVD deals around the world Huth's stylish and very, very funny coming of age story revolving around a possessed cell phone has died a quiet death in obscurity. And that makes me sad. Sniff.
Well, Huth is back with yet another stellar little concept for a film, this time a French comic western starring Jean Dujardin from the OSS 117 films. Shooting in the fall the film casts Dujardin as a traveling gunslinger sent to bring order to the town where he grew up. Calamity Jane and Jesse James both make appearances in the film as does the requisite saloon girl romance. With the talent involved in this one - Dujardin is simply brilliant in OSS 117 and could very well become a Peter Sellers for this generation - I expect great things here. Hit the link below for a larger version of the poster.
I'm a huge fan of the work of James Luth. His Serial Lover and Hellphone films should be slathered with cult love but almost no one out of their native country of France has ever seen them (And in the case of Hellphone, maybe three people.) His huge hit, Brice De Nice, is so-so. And to add sugar to the cream it stars James Dujardin, who was fantastic in the also little covered film "99 Franc"!