Dernier chaperon rouge, Le

1996

Plot

The intorduction tells of some kind of nucler bomb destroying the world, which gives some clue to the mixture of mechanistic world and fairy tale world. A ballerina steps out into the woodland scene (comming up from underground), dressed in red. She dances around and then falls foul of a funny man with a head covered in robotic arms, knives and lenses. He takes her to his laboratory and cuts up her legs. So she kills him. Now this girl grows old and despairs over her legs. Enter Emmanuelle, who is a singer, and sings this beautiful song. She plays with the mushrooms and bunnyrabbits, and a wolf character looks on. The old ballerina hypnotises her and gets her to come to the lab, with the intention of taking her legs. The wolf gets there first and kills the ballerina and takes her place. Enter EB, there is some romance and it look like they are falling in love (I did not understand all the French, but the "my what big eyes you have etc came into it"). She removes his muzzle so they can kiss and he turns into a wolf's head (he looked human before). Cut to Black After it they showed the making, now there was an insight into what EB is really like...

Plot by: Simon C Moore

Comments

Other info: Available on Laser disk: Title: JAN KOUNEN : SHORT STORIES. Goto this site for more info. Apparently it is only available on a limited edition laser disk, which came free in a special offer, and is no longer for "sale". Links Jan Kounen's web site. Big thanks for the pics!

Genres

• Short,