Cinéman (2009)
Directed by Yann Moix

Film Synopsis

Régis Deloux is an ordinary maths teacher in an ordinary French high school in Montreuil.  Years of living alone have made him a twisted, bitter man, and his main pleasure in life is marking his pupil's work with the severity of a medieval torturer.  Then, one day, this most ordinary of losers finds he has the most extraordinary of talents - he can enter and leave films!  On hearing of this, Fernandel calls him up and appeals to him to come to the aid of his girlfriend, who has been taken prisoner by a psychopath in a silent film.  It is the kind of adventure that Régis had long dreamed off, a chance to prove himself a real hero instead of a mean so-and-so whose only achievement in life is to inflict untold suffering on school children with algebra and differential equations.  Without delay, the maths teacher throws himself into his mission and is soon hurtling back through the history of cinema to show that anything Douglas Fairbanks can do he can do better...