Hellzapoppin' (Le surréalisme au cinéma)

Hellzapoppin'

USA 1941 | H.C. Potter | vo | 84’ | digital | Cast : Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

« Made at the height of Hollywood classicism, Hellzapoppin’. breaks every rule of conventional filmmaking, then invents a few more just to break them, too. A nonstop barrage of postmodern comedy infused with explosive surrealism, it has only a few moments that aren’t strange in one way or another. » (366 Weird Movies)