Movies to watch this week: "Is there a cop to save the world?", "Together," "On Loop," "On Low Heat"...

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Cinema goes back in time this week. Akiva Schaffer happily resurrects the ZAZ humor of the 1980s with Is There a Movie to Save the World?; Junta Yamaguchi deliciously pushes the temporal paradox to the extreme in Looping ; and Sarah Friedland offers a beautiful portrait of a woman whose ages seem to merge in the delicate A Feu Doux .

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Following in the footsteps of the master of bad parody Mel Brooks, the triad formed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams (1944-2024) and Jerry Zucker, three childhood friends from Wisconsin, abbreviated by the acronym ZAZ, carried the torch of American comedy high.

Having launched their success in 1980 with a hilarious parody of air disaster movies – Airplane? – the trio began a trilogy in 1988 starring Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010). A Cop Can Save the World?, a contemporary remake of the franchise by Akiva Schaffer, resets the score with the arrival of Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr, his father's son.

A threadbare film noir plot serves as his argument. A murder. A washed-up investigator. A voiceover. A deadly blonde on a quest for revenge—Pamela Anderson, who returns with a certain dog in the spotlight—whose double-dealing and looks as much as astound the inspector.

The essential thing here lies in the Stakhanovist conception of comedy which governs the staging, and which consists of administering one gag per shot, without particular consideration for its refinement or its appropriateness. Repetition, the absurd, the references galore (from Citizen Kane to Batman ), the far-fetched, the drift of nonsense are here, not systematically, but quite often, the conditions of a simple but precious joy. J. Ma.

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