Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, who have already distinguished themselves with Willy 1st, are back with their new film: Teddy. A unique proposal in the landscape of French cinema, Teddy tells the story of a young man who lives in the Pyrenees, and who gradually turns into a werewolf. And yes, genre cinema is interfering in French productions.
Teddy: the genre film regains its rights
Teddy is a fascinating work, which proves that French cinema knows how to make genre cinema. A refreshing genre cinema that breaks the indestructible hegemony of the French triangle par excellence: comedy, drama and auteur film. After feature films such as Grave, La Nuée, Le Dernier voyage, Dans la brume or La Nuit a dévoré le monde, French genre cinema continues its momentum and proves that it knows how to do something else, and that there is an opening on another world to exploit. 
Thus Teddy is certainly positioned as the first French werewolf film. Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma sign a unique work in the French landscape. A totally offbeat pop proposal that manages to mix genres with great ease. Social film, comedy, horror springs, bittersweet drama, Teddy is a varied and delicious cocktail, with all the ingredients marrying perfectly. Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma take up the great clichés of pop culture, and werewolves, to adapt them to their own style, and to French cinema. They derive mythology, legends, the knowledge of the spectators, to offer a more subtle, less demonstrative, funnier too, more French approach. Fans of the genre will be totally seduced by this intelligent shift of such a codified style, and also well established in the world of pop culture.
An exciting double read
Thus, Teddy is a sweet mix between comedy and horror perfectly dosed. The feature film plays with the clichés of horror, the clichés of small villages, the inhabitants, the police, and mocks the phlegm of the countryside. It's extremely smart to place such a universal plot in an intimate, secluded, and quiet setting. The lag is perfect, and Teddy is foolproof. Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma choose to put the werewolf in the background. A creature that is deliberately not very present, and remains an uncertain and indescribable threat for the majority of the film. Through successful special effects, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma offer an explosive conclusion, almost American, in a wave of violence quite rare in French cinema. 
Finally, unlike American blockbusters that sometimes lack vision, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma offer an interesting double reading. The message is Clear. The werewolf is only a chimera, and is the representation of the disorder of an unstable, lost, and uncomfortable young man. It is then a metaphor for loneliness, lack of access to information and culture, professional and social pressure, drug use, etc. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Teddy's character is just a product of the system. An individual abandoned by the government, who ends up fart a cable through an incredible and sickly violence, which evokes, perhaps, the mass killings in the USA. In any case, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma have brought a real breath of fresh air to French cinema, and do not intend to stop there, since they are now preparing The Year of the Shark, with, in particular, Kad Merad. It promises! https://youtu.be/93hFzgACr_s
