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Avant-Garde French Film Director
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
On a television film programme, an interviewer welcomes the acclaimed French avant-garde director Pierre de Tierre and praises the bold choices in his latest picture. One by one, the filmmaker cheerfully punctures each interpretation: the sudden switch to black and white happened because the money for colour stock ran out, the jittery documentary look came from a broken tripod, the heroine's lisp belonged to an actress who was the producer's girlfriend, and a celebrated line was simply mistranslated. Even the poignant final shot of a stray dog turns out to be an unwelcome intrusion by an animal that ruined the camera. Undeterred, the interviewer introduces a clip from the director's next film.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
No, no, no, we change from colour to black and white because we run out of colour film.
I don't give her a lisp. She have a lisp.
You searched all over France for an actress with a lisp. There's dedication.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Benny Hill
Writer
John Robins
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
According to the Benny Hill fan wiki, the sketch reworks a December 26, 1968 BBC interview in which Henry McGee questioned another Hill film director, Claude Le Twit. It was later included in the 1974 compilation film The Best of Benny Hill.
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