The film was written and directed by
Bertrand Mandico; produced by Antoine Garnier with Mandico, Flavien Giorda and Emmanuel Chaumet serving as co-producers; Nicolas Eveilleau and Sylvain Verdet serving as cinematographers; Laure Saint-Marc and Helio Pu as editors, and Pierre Desprats composed the score. Both films were commissioned to Mandico. Initially. he would not combine the two films. The adaptation of
Igor Stravinsky's ballet
Petrouchka was commissioned by the
Aix-en-Provence Festival, while Philippe Quesne invited Mandico to create
The Deviant Comedy at the
Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and told him: "Make cinema on stage; it will serve as a show." Mandico took advantage of this opportunity to prepare the film
She Is Conann (2023) that he was writing at the time, and wrote a show that portrayed a double, Octavia, who questions
She Is Conann and begins rehearsing with actresses. The show ended up not happening because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, but Mandico decided to film what it was supposed to be originally and it became
The Deviant Comedy. Both films explore subjects such as the
Russo-Ukrainian war,
police violence in France,
totalitarianism across Europe, the
#MeToo movement, and sexual abuse in the modelling and fashion industries. == Release ==