La Classe américaine (1993)
- Directed by
- Dominique Mézerette, Michel Hazanavicius
- Genre
- détournement, flashback film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 249 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A French television film made entirely from old Warner Bros. footage. It creates a new story by dubbing over the clips to parody Citizen Kane.
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What happens
La Classe américaine (French pronunciation: [la klas ameʁikɛn]; lit. 'American Class'), also known as Le Grand Détournement (The Great Détournement), is a 1993 French television film, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette. It consists exclusively of extracts of old Warner Bros. films, put together and dubbed with new lines so as to create an entirely new film that is a parody of Citizen Kane. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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