This is really cool. At this writing my sexy parody edit of the French film Le Miracle de la Vie has nearly 100,000 views, and recently I had a whim to see if I could track down the creators of the original film and see what they thought of it. I managed to find an email address for Nicolas Beauchamp (who co-directed the film with Alexandra Pic, who also starred in it) and I sent off the following email.

Hello, Mr. Beauchamp. I don't know if you speak English at all, so I'll start with a Google translation of my email and follow with a version in English, my own language. I hope that at least one version will make sense for you!

Last year I saw your film, The Miracle of Life. I was fascinated by the film but I don't speak French at all, so to me the story was very mysterious. Why were all of these women suddenly pregnant? What were they saying? I had no idea.

I was inspired to create a whole new sci-fi story for the film, using subtitles of my own devising. My version involves a mysterious worldwide outbreak of pregnancy for women AND men. (Men all over the world suddenly become women, and everybody is pregnant.) As of this writing, my edit of the film has 95,000+ views on Youtube.

I've always been curious to know what the creators of the original film would think of my very strange remake. (I imagine it's even stranger for people who actually speak French, and know what's REALLY going on in your film!) It was done as a tribute of sorts to your film, and I don't earn money from it in any way. It was a very silly project for me, but I had great fun doing it and people seem to really enjoy it. My hope is that you will be flattered to know that your film has been remixed and enjoyed in a new way by many people.

Someday I hope to encounter a subtitled version of your film, because I really am very curious to know what's happening! For me your film is like something from a dream, inexplicable and wonderful.

A few days later I was thrilled to receive an email from Ms. Pic herself. Here's an excerpt:

We both (Nicolas and I, Alexandra) read your email this morning with a very strange feeling … a parodie of our short movie ?! We never expected such an enthusiasm.

So we went on your site to see the result, still surprised by the number of views. And we admit that your interpretation is funny, and not so far from our real version, which is already based on fantasy.

So we first want to give you more informations about that movie.

Nicolas and I decided to write this story when I was pregnant (for real) of our first child, and France was then running for its next president; You may know that our social system is a wonderful one and many politics want to close the frontiers, based on the wrong idea that immigrants would ruin our system. Many studies say that on the contrary no system in Europe would be viable without immigration.
Our story is just the imaginary situation of our country, if they had closed the frontiers. Mixed to the incredible madness of our politicians.

We produced the filming, and ended the short movie in 2010. We sold it to an italian channel, from RTI, and also to a french channel « Orange » for their web site. We were then one of the most viewed.

The movie has had a beautiful life in International Festivals and we also got an award for it at the Rochester Festival, USA.

For the story!

After that, we decided for different reasons, not to post it on the internet. And so we really wondered this morning how you got our movie!

It was a real surprised to realize that someone posted it 2 years ago on youtube and an amazing surprise to see that more than 500,000 persons saw it!

As it seems to be a constant request, we will create a web site with all the informations about the movie, the crew, and its story. We already have a subtitled version, so it will be on line soon.

I'm so glad to find out that they were amused by my version, instead of offended or creeped out. I know I'm not the only one who will be eagerly looking forward to the subtitled version of their film. If it's this delightful when we can't even understand what the women are saying, imagine what a treat it will be when we can!