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‘Under Paris’ Director on Whether Netflix’s Shark Hit Will Get a Sequel and How the Movie Takes Aim at the Olympics
'Under Paris' director Xavier Gens talks about sequel prospects and Olympics commentary in French shark movie which has broken records on Netflix.
Dropping a month before the start of the summer Olympics in Paris, the movie about triathlon athletes who get devoured during a swimming race in the Seine river ranked first on Netflix’s top 10 for non-English language films across 93 countries. Gens says “Under Paris” is as much a genre movie aimed at entertaining audiences as it is a political satire in the veins of “Don’t Look Up,” riffing at the hypocrisy of French politicians who claim that the Olympics are all about bringing people together when there’s also a commercial agenda and consequences for climate change. The funny thing is that all the dialogue in the film is pulled from actual speeches and comments made by different political figures, including Anne Hidalgo and Valerie Pecresse (head of the council of the Ile de France region).
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